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Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

Amartya Sen
Poverty, Full Potential, Realizing

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

Amartya Sen
Freedom, Poverty, Sometimes
Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.4, Anchor

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

Amartya Sen
Educational, Expansion, Poverty
Source: www.pbs.org

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

Amartya Sen
Issues, Poverty, Inequality
Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

Amartya Sen
People, Poverty, Problem

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