Amartya Sen — 'National security is one component of human security’ - The Hindu

Amartya Sen — 'National security is one component of human security’ - The Hindu



Excerpt from Prof. Sen's interview:

G Sampath:

"Your work has helped shift the focus of development from economic growth to concerns about the quality of human life. Is it time now for another shift — from human development to social justice, as the true measure of a nation’s progress towards being a more developed society?

Amartya Sen:

When we came up with the Human Development Index (HDI), the idea was to have a simple index that would capture something better than the GDP figures. If you look at the very first Human Development Report (HDR) of 1990, we invoked the idea of justice in a number of cases. I think as human development grows as a discipline, justice will increasingly become a bigger component of it."
Read full interview using the link above.
M G Warrier

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