Alternative Formulations for the Income Component of HDI

human development, consumption, globalization

Why and How Is Health a Human Right?

EconomicsPhilosoph

Capitalism Beyond the Crisis

Economic

Food and Freedom

Text of the Sir John Crawford Memorial Lecture delivered during International Centers Week, October 1987, by Amartya Sen. Professor Sen addressed the connections between freedom and food, which he said needed to be recognized more fully as part of the background to food policy

Gender Inequality in Human Development: Theories and Measurement

human development, gender measurement, gender equality

Bangabandhu and visions of Bangladesh

This is the complete text of the “Bangabandhu Birth Centenary Talk” by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, delivered online on 27 January 2021. The event was organised by the LSE South Asia Centre as part of “Mujib 100”celebrations to mark the centenary of Sheikh Mujibur’s Rahman’s birth centenary in 2019-20, in collaboration with the Bangladesh High Commission in London. A video-recording of the talk is available here

Objectivity and Position

This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1992, given by Amartya Sen, an Indian philosopher