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Jun 2013
51m 48s

Discovery of Women

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Professor Amartya Sen delivers a Distinguished Public Lecture on 'Discovery of Women', at Oxford. On 6 June 2013, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) was delighted to host a Distinguished Public Lecture by our advisor Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in Economics and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. The lecture, ... Show More
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