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2019 Nobel Prize Winners - Economic Sciences - ShareAmerica
2019 Nobel Prize Winners - Economic Sciences - ShareAmerica
Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo devised an experimental approach to
development economics two decades ago that transformed the discipline. On October 14
the three economists won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
“The Laureates’ research findings — and those of the researchers following in their
footsteps — have dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice,” the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement.
Kremer, Banerjee and Duflo’s approach involves breaking poverty into components such as
low education or poor child health and developing precise experiments to understand each
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component’s impact on affected populations. As a direct result of one such study, more
than 5 million Indian children have received successful remedial tutoring in schools.
BREAKING NEWS:
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.”#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/SuJfPoRe2N
The Prize in Economic Sciences was established in 1968 by Sweden’s central bank, in
memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prizes.
Americans also won 2019 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics and Medicine.
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