quoted in Andrew Balls, "Donors urged to focus more on disability link", Financial Times (December 2, 2004)
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Given what can be achieved through intelligent and humane intervention, it is amazing how inactive and smug most societies are about the prevalence of the unshared burden of disability.

— Amartya Sen

What It Means

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Amartya Sen

About Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics.