The idea of human development is found in the 1990s and this is a tradition of thought that is unashamed to call itself universalist when it comes to the basics of that we all need to live a “good life” and also we are unwilling to give up the belief of that we are all equally entitled to enjoy such things. Because of this idea and point of view, there comes a problem of poverty and global inequality.

Sen is born in Bengal in 1993 and he has spend the larger part of his working life at institutions in the UK and the US. He is an economist by training, but works with a philosopher’s skepticism about what we take to be fundamental truths. He is also a Nobel prize winners and he has also chosen not to “consult” with governments on the back of his ideas.

Perhaps, the most widely known of those Sen’s work on famine. He argues that famines are rarely the result of a lack of food. They are more usually the consequence of a breakdown in people’s ability to access or produce food in the way that they usually do like for example, the result of political failures, not natural ones. He was also long haunted by the memory of the great Bengal famine of 1943 and Sen’s work has at hear most concerned itself with the idea of human freedom.

Sen published a book called Development As Freedom in 1999 and in this book; he argues that the expansion of freedom is central to development. Sen also would have us conceptualize on the idea of development as freedom. Of these two instances, the goal is far greater, because it requires the thinking about poverty as the unusual way. This involves acknowledging the main problem of it. The problem of development lies as much in what we classify as wealth and how we go about promoting that as it does in poverty.

That development represents a wider set of freedoms that GNP can help us with is also important because of a paradox that Sen expresses in the mid 1980s. “You could be happy, without having much freedom. You could have a good deal of freedom, without achieving much.” Freedom in real life is not actually free because no individuals can get freedom without sacrificing something.

Sen is also not so much that he supports as much individual freedom as will enable the greater good, but that he supports real, lived-in freedoms, or what often called “capabilities”. What use are political freedoms on paper, he challenges, when in practice people are prevented from enjoying them because they also suffer “unfreedoms” of malnutrition, discrimination, violence and poverty? This claim has yet to be fully taken on board by practitioners and politicians more concerned with addressing perceived needs and the shorter tem political horizon.

Because of this, Sen has chosen not to taken the opportunity to a presidency of the World Bank. But, Sen has play a significant part in advising and also shaped the work of international bodies such as the UN’s International Labor Organization.

When looking at MDG (Millennium Development Goals), freedom is one of the basic values to an extent and Sen is also aware that the connection between freedom and economic productivity harks back to the Enlightenment era. For this reason, he is not afraid to challenge Adam Smith ideas.

In conclusion, Sen has bring up the ideas of basic capabilities many times that the community must not ignore nutrition, health, literacy, poverty. “Paying attention to these basic capabilities of people and promoting them through coherent public policies, for him, is a matter of justice.”