The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
Indian-origin Abhijit Banerjee wins Nobel Prize in Economics for study on poverty.
Abhijit Banerjee was born in 1961 in Kolkata.He is the alumnus from Presidency Kolkata, Harvard University and a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.