Poverty Is The Deprivation Of Opportunity.

I Think The Whole Progress Over The Last Two Or Three Millennia Has Been Entirely Dependent On Ideas And Techniques And Commodities And People Moving From One Part Of The World To Another. It Seems Difficult To Take An Anti-globalization View If One Takes Globalization Properly In Its Full Sense.

It’s Scandalous When One Thinks About The People Who Live In A World In Which They Need Not Be Hungry, In Which They Need Not Die Without Medical Care, In Which They Need Not Be Illiterate, They Need Not Feel Hopeless And Miserable So Much Of The Time, And Yet They Are.

The Higher Education Has Always Appealed To The South Asian Social Leaders Across All The Countries In South Asia. But Primary Education Has Been Neglected. The Oddity, By The Way, Is If You Look At The Contrast In India, There Are Some Areas Like Kerala Where There's A Long History Of Educational Development.

There Are Some People Who Say That They’re Concerned Only With Poverty But Not Inequality. But I Don’t Think That Is A Sustainable Thought. A Lot Of Poverty Is, In Fact, Inequality Because Of The Connection Between Income And Capability—having Adequate Resources To Take Part In The Life Of The Community.

[globalization] Has Enriched The World Scientifically And Culturally And Benefited Many People Economically As Well.