Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen: Why India Trails China

While China’s wealth gap has become an increasingly hot topic, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen suggests that China’s achievements on inequality have far surpassed India’s, leaving the latter at a...

Something Positive from the Negative

During a recent interview, Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen commented on the economic differences between China and India: Contrary to what many say, Prof Sen believes that China and India are not drivers of the world...

Meeting the press: India and China, A clash of cultures

From the International Herald Tribune, via A Glimpse of the World: India As India and China emerge as global megaforces and sidle diplomatically closer, it is becoming fashionable to recall a long history of trans-Himalayan contact, suspended by 20th-century geopolitical quirks. “The richness and variety of early intellectual relations between China and India have long […]

Passage to China

In the New York Review of Books, economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen writes about the historical interactions between India and China and their relevance for the development of the two countries today. While the two countries’ Buddhist connections have been widely studied, Sen writes, “religion is only one part of the much bigger story […]

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