FREEDOM
"Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means." (p.10)
UNFREEDOM
"Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states." (p.3)
GENDER BIAS
"There is plenty of evidence that when women get the opportunities that are typically the preserve of men, they are no less successful in making use of these facilities that men have claimed to be their own over the centuries. The opportunities at the highest political levels happen to have come to women, in many developing countries, only in rather special circumstances-often related to the demise of their more established husband or fathers." (p. 199-200)
HUNGER
"For the elimination of hunger in the modern world, it is crucial to understand the causations of famines in an adequately broad way, and not just in terms of some mechanical balance between food and population." (p. 161)
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
"In judging economic development, it is not adequate to look only at the growth of GNP or some other indicators of over-all economic expansion. We have to look also at the impact of democracy and political freedoms on the lives and capabilities of the citizens." (p. 150)
ECONOMIC INSECURITY
"Quite often economic insecurity can relate to the lack of democratic rights and liberties." (p.16)
CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
"The contemporary world is dominated by the West, and even though the imperial authority of the erstwhile rulers of the world has declined, the dominance of the West remains as strong as ever-in some ways stronger than before, especially in cultural matters. The sun does not set on the empire of Coca-cola or MTV." (p.240)
