"We Live in a World Where the Rich May No Longer Ignore the Poor"

[illbill]

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<snip>By Laurence Caramel - Le Monde

Interview with Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen. - Tuesday 18 January 2004

You are here in Paris for the Forum on Human Development, organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). How do you see the UN's efforts to mobilize rich countries in the fight against poverty?

There's a new understanding at work. The last ten years have allowed us to see the global world in which we live more clearly. We've come to realize at least three things: </snip

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[Kenneth ken]

1. nice interview

thanks for posting it. :)

That's the kind of thinking we need in this country, as our health care deteriorates, inequality expands, education declines. We're like China in reverse, at a somewhat slower pace. Actually, China is sort of mirroring us in the recent past. We had decent health care and education, were making strides toward equality, then shifted to greed. China had alsobuilt up its education and health care, and has recently shifted to greed.

We had built up the economy, used it to strengthen education, equality, and opportunity; now we have shifted to greed among the few, and let everything else fall apart. :(

:hi:

[Dirk39]

2. Sorry for being sarcastic...

but it seems to me that I have read this interview at least 56789 times during the last 20 years. Some versions were better than the one of Amartya Sen. And nothing did ever happen. It was just going worse.
I'm tired of these nobel idiots during their sunday afternoon TV-Interviews and Feuilletons.

Bla Bla Bla, Blablablablablablabla. Jesus.
Since we live in a world, were the Rich can no longer ignore the Poor, they've killed billions and billions and billions of those, they could no longer ignore. It's a bit stupid, if a Nobel-Price winner did not notice this. It's just embarassing.

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[eg101]

3. Hear, Hear!

Someone needs to say it!

[Dirk39]

4. "Talk , Talk!"

China blablabla, privatisation blublublu, Bush a bit more moderate blablabla, war a bit less dreadfull, torture a bit less cruel. Concentration camps a little bit less concentrated.

We're on the road to freedom and happyness.

No University will make you see, it needs a Nobel Price to be a prophet like this.



Dirk