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Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Economics, joining the list of Indians and people of Indian origin to grab the world's most prestigious award in different fields. Banerjee shared the award with his French-American wife Esther Duflo and another American economist Michael Kremer for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."<br><br>
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PEOPLE Who is Indian-origin Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee? BY DIBYAROOP-BOSE OCT 16, 2019 11:33 Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Economics, joining the list of Indians and people of Indian origin to grab the world's most prestigious award in different fields. Banerjee shared the award with his French-American wife Esther Duflo and another American economist
Michael Kremer for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." The 58-year-old economist is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied at the University of Calcutta and Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University before receiving his Ph.D. in 1988 from Harvard University Banerjee joins the list of Indians and people of Indian origin who have received the prestigious Nobel prize in fields like Physics, Chemistry, Peace, Economic Sciences and Medicine. TAGS:INDIAN ORIGIN NOBELABHIJIT BANERJEEINDIAN AMERICANECONOMICSNEWS v