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...success as an example of what Indian financial and managerial acumen can achieve, given the right global opportunities. Perhaps. But nobody asks this: Would Mittal have been as successful if he had remained in India? Why do so many of our success stories - from conductor Zubin Mehta to economist Amartya Sen to author Salman Rushdie - live abroad? Is there something about the Indian environment that discourages achievement? Whenever globally successful businessmen have come back home, they have failed to replicate their international record. Even the Mittals are far more successful abroad than they are in India. Some of this...
...widened dramatically. There are now 1.07 boys born for each girl in China, compared to a ratio of 1.05 in the West. Given the size of the world’s population, a 0.02 difference can translate into millions of people. According to authors like Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, as many as 100 million women have gone “missing” in Asia. Most authors have attributed the missing women to high levels of female mortality. But in her paper, “Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women,” Oster said...
Harvard can only claim one representative—Nobel laureate and Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen—among the world’s top 10 public intellectuals, according to Foreign Policy (FP) and Prospect magazines.This sparse showing comes after Harvard was a dominant presence in a list of the top 100 public intellectuals that the two magazines released in late September. Ten University affiliates were included in that group—the most of any institution worldwide.The final rankings, released last week, were determined by an online vote in which the public was able to rank their top five...
...part of the richest fifth of the world’s people who consume 86 percent of the world’s goods and services. (The poorest fifth consumes just 1.3 percent.) Our current lifestyle is simply not compatible with African development. To paraphrase Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, who is also a Nobel Prize-winning economist, the problem of poverty is not one of resources, but of their allocation. There needs to be a reallocation and prioritization of the world’s resources—including the resources that you and I control. Every dollar...
...list includes Harvard experts from a wide range of fields, from economists such as University President Lawrence H. Summers and Nobel laureate Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen to humanities scholars such as Carr Center for Human Rights Director Michael Ignatieff and Chair of the African and African American Studies Department Henry Louis “Skip” Gates...