{"id":83950,"date":"2019-10-16T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=83950"},"modified":"2019-10-16T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T13:52:15","slug":"nobel-prize-in-economic-sciences-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/nobel-prize-in-economic-sciences-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which Indian-American economist has been conferred Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for year 2019?<br> (a) Abhijit Banerjee<br> (b) Manisha Kulshrestha<br> (c) P Sadasivam<br> (d) Annie Zaidi<br> Answer: (a)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Indian origin economist Abhijit Banerjee, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for the year 2019. <\/li><li>The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to confer the 2019 Nobel to Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo from MIT and Michael Kremer from Harvard.<\/li><li>The trio has been awarded for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty, one of humanities most pressing issues.<\/li><li>The trio\u2019s experimental research methods have benefited over 5 million Indian children, who are part of remedial tutoring programmes in schools.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Abhijit Banerjee:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Born in Mumbai,Abhijit did his B.Sc.(H) in economics from University of Calcutta, completed his M.A. in economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),Delhi in 1983.Further,he obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1988.<\/li><li>He is an International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.<\/li><li>He is also a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab along with economists Sendhil Mullainathan and Esther Duflo.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Nobel Prize for Economics:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Formally known as Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences,it was established in 1968 by Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden\u2019s central bank) in memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.<\/li><li>The award carries a gold medal, a diploma and a 9 million-kronor (or $918,000) cash award.<\/li><li>The first Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/economic-sciences\/2019\/press-release\">https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/economic-sciences\/2019\/press-release<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/economic-sciences\/\">https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/economic-sciences\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abhijit_Banerjee\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abhijit_Banerjee<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which Indian-American economist has been conferred Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for year 2019? (a) Abhijit Banerjee (b) Manisha Kulshrestha (c) P Sadasivam (d) Annie Zaidi Answer: (a) Related facts: Indian origin economist Abhijit Banerjee, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for the year 2019. 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