One Has To Be Realistic. One’s Concern

Education Makes Human Beings More Articulate. It Transforms People. You Can Think Differently About The World. It Makes It Possible For You To Get Jobs. It Makes A Dramatic Difference. It Generates A Social Equity That We Need.

I Think In Those Countries, Including My Own In India, Where I Think Primary Education Has Been Badly Neglected By Successive Governments, I Blame The Opposition As Much. Why Have They Allowed The Government To Get Away With It?

You Have To Be Interested In Inequality. The Issue Of Inequality And That Of Poverty Are Not Separable.

Hardly Any Famine Affects More Than 5 Percent, Almost Never More Than 10 Percent, Of The Population. The Largest Proportion Of A Population Affected Was The Irish Famine Of The 1840s, Which Came Close To 10 Percent Over A Number Of Years.

We Live In A World Community, And Economic Contact Has Partly Contributed To That. It’s Also The Case That Economic Opportunity Opened Up By Economic Contact Has Helped To A Great Extent To Reduce Poverty In Many Parts Of The World.