Amartya Sen

Poverty Kills. Better Policy, Not Better Medicine, Is the Solution

Kristen Lewis | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Human Development, Gdp, Amartya Sen, Impact News, Economic Crisis, Health Care Reform, American-Human-Development-Project, Race, Life Expectancy, Social Issues, Health Care, Recession, Impact News

Poverty kills. Addressing the underlying social and economic conditions that breed poverty and ill health -- in other words, better policy, not better medicine -- is the solution.

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Why Include Interfaith Children In Interfaith Dialogue?

Susan Katz Miller | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Charter for Compassion, Interfaith Children, Interfaith Dialogue, Religious Tolerance, Karen Armstrong, Amartya Sen, Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core, Inter-Religious Dialogue, Interfaith Engagement, Interfaith Families, Religion News

Interfaith children, natural experts in this field, have not been officially welcomed, whether in high-level interfaith dialogue between religious institutions or in more local grassroots interfaith activism.

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Measuring a Better Life

Kristen Lewis | Posted 08.29.2011

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It's no surprise that GDP is no longer the first place economists, policymakers, and individuals go to answer the question "how are people really doing?"

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Which California Are You?

Kristen Lewis | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Race, Human Development, Social Issues, Amartya Sen, Impact News, Economic Crisis, Health Care, Recession, American-Human-Development-Project, Health Care Reform, Life Expectancy, Gdp, Los Angeles News

Wouldn't it be great if an objective, fact-based tool existed to identify the most strategic levers for change -- to help keep California from losing its edge? Such a tool now exists.

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One Woman's Mission: Empowering World's Poorest Girls to Transform World

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women?S Leadership Development, International Year of Youth, Empowering Girls, Amartya Sen, Social Responsibility, HIV/AID, World Bank, Wangari Maathai, United Nations, Jim Luce, Taliban, Violence Against Girls, Not a Job but a Life, Child Advocate, Women?S Issues, Asia, Sofias, Population Reference Bureau, Developing Countries, International Development, Gender Inequity, Empowering Women of Nepal, Kofi Annan, New York City, Oiww, Girls, Mdgs, Jin In, Bangladesh, Millennium Development Goals, Nepal, Orphans International Worldwide, Female Infanticide, Hillary Clinton, Korean-American, Acid Attacks, International Museum of Women, World News

I first met Jin In off a snowy sidewalk near Bryant Park in New York City this past winter. She just returned from Nepal, energized. There, she was ...

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Health Care Reform Passed, Now What?

Sarah Burd-Sharps | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Development, Gdp, Amartya Sen, Economic Crisis, American-Human-Development-Project, Race, Life Expectancy, Social Issues, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Impact News

In 1999, the government launched Healthy People 2010, an ambitious project to narrow the disparities in health outcomes for different groups. But it failed. Now that health care reform has passed, it's time for Healthy People 2020.

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Amartya Sen: The Open India (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Amartya Sen, Radio, Nobel Laureate, Conversation, Harvard, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Economics, World News

Amartya Sen, when I ask about this "Year of India," quips that the biggest change in the "new" India is in our non-Indian heads. Meaning: that common...

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NYC Assignment Desk: Cover 'I'm With Coco,' Brooklyn Taco Experiment

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paley Center for Media, Economics, Amartya Sen, Brooklyn, Cookoff, Conan O'Brien, Eyes and Ears, Soul Train, The Idea of Justice, Tacos, Haiti, I'm With Coco, New York Local, Seth Herzog, New York News

Huffington Post continues its local coverage with the help of the Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit. To join the local reporting team and received a...

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7 Great Books By Economists

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

There's a major panel discussion going on today in Washington, D.C. called "The Next Stage," in which economists are coming together to discuss the pr...

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Obama Goes to Oslo: The Quiz

Michael Kubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King, Amartya Sen, Columbia, Al Franken, Guantanamo Bay, Harvard, Jfk, Barack Obama, Oslo, Comedy News

What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.

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Stiglitz, Amartya Sen: GDP A Poor Measure Of Growth

nytimes.com | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gdp, Economic-Growth, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, New Growth Theory, Nicolas Sarkozy, Business News

In a provocative new study, a pair of Nobel prize-winning economists, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, urge the adoption of new assessment tools th...

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The Beast Runs Free

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, President Obama, Amartya Sen, Treasury, Timothy Geithner, Charles Murray, Capitalism, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business News

True change will not come from altering how we regulate the financial sector -- at least not in statements of the sort Secretary Geithner issued this week.

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