"The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization.  The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the opposite, and as a professional economist, I have had occasions in the past to wonder whether the Bank could not have done very much better."

-- Amartya Sen (economist, author, Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economics (1998))

Source: Sen, A. (1999). Development as Freedom. p. xiii.

"We live in a world of unprecedented opulence, of a kind that would have been hard even to imagine a century or two ago. ... And yet we also live in a world with remarkable deprivation, destitution and oppression."

-- Amartya Sen (economist, author, Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economics (1998))

Source: Sen, A. (1999). Development as Freedom. p. xi.

"Despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority--of people."

-- Amartya Sen (economist, author, Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economics (1998))

Source: Sen, A. (1999). Development as Freedom. p. 3-4.