Given what can be achieved through intelligent and humane i… - Amartya Sen

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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.

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

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Native Name: অমর্ত্য সেন

Alternative Names: Amartya Kumar Sen • Professor Amartya Kumar Sen

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