Amartya Sen

ive action. As a universal forum, the United Nations has a privileged position for consolidating the consultation process of middle-income countries. Amartya Sen has said with incontrovertible authority that to speak of the development of a particular society, we must analyse the lives of those who live within

rt our development agenda. One cannot build a nation when some citizens do not participate in the economy and therefore feel left out. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen rightly states that poverty should be seen as the deprivation of basic capabilities rather than merely as low income. The deprivation of elementary c

definition of poverty such social and cultural aspects as “the ability to go about without shame”. More recently, the Nobel Prize winner in Economics Amartya Sen spoke of development itself as freedom. In that sense, broadening our concept of poverty to include measures of social participation and inclusion, a

The United Nations has a special responsibility to address challenges related to institution-building and to promote democracy. As Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize winning economist has said, countries need not be fit for democracy; they need to become fit through democracy. Hungary, as an emerg

nd firm belief of almost 200 of our world leaders to come up with simple, obvious, straightforward objectives, which I think can be best summed up by Amartya Sen’s eloquent formulation, “Development as freedom”. Five years later, I think these goals are still relevant and they are no less imperative. Pretendin

between those findings and the fact that Venezuela is actively pursuing a viable alternative to market democracy? The Nobel Prize-winning economist, Amartya Sen, affirms that democracy is the best remedy for hunger. Indeed, in Venezuela, under the leadership of President Hugo Chávez Frías, we achieved that go

s a matter of concern that there is still some reluctance to accept the right of all nations to human development. The awarding of the Nobel Prize to Amartya Sen for his work on the welfare economy and on the understanding of poverty, inequality and hunger reminds us that global development must include the fi

itimacy in the modern world. Experience teaches us that democracy not only institutionalizes freedom but also brings prosperity. Celebrated economist Amartya Sen has conclusively proved that a democratic system of Government is no obstacle to the creation of wealth: development does not 32 require an authorita