Market liberalization has failed to affect the welfare of the poor. The gap between rich and poor is widening; the tension between North-South is potentially explosive. Amartya Sen, an economist from Santiniketan, India, who won the Nobel Prize for economics, spoke in an exclusive interview with Arif Zulkifli from TEMPO at Cambridge, England. Sen offers thoughts that, albeit no longer fresh, are timeless.
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The warning sounded like thunder in broad daylight. "So that you know," he said, "there are no more walls that can protect America or any other developed countries." The wall, as far as World Bank President James T. Wolfensohn is concerned, came crumbling down when the World Trade Center collapsed in last September's terrorist attack.
For the first time in history, Wolfensohn reminds the West of the existence of two billion-odd unfortunate people
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