Thailand's economic development was driven by educational…

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

— Amartya Sen

South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in…

— Amartya Sen

The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been…

— Amartya Sen

There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high business.…

— Amartya Sen

Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.

— Amartya Sen

I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when…

— Amartya Sen

Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of…

— Amartya Sen

Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I don’t think Japan’s…

— Amartya Sen

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

— Amartya Sen

Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars…

— Mahathir Mohamad

“Who are you if nobody knows your story?”

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is…

— Robert Zoellick

We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have…

— Hillary Clinton

There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave…

— Pankaj Mishra

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

— Li Peng