AMARTYA SEN - Indian Nobel Prize

INDIAN NOBEL LAUREATES

                                                                                                                             AMARTYA SEN

                                                                                                                               (b  1933)

                             He was born in Shantiniketan and educated at Presidency College in Calcutta (Kolkata). For further studies he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees. Prof. Sen has taught economics at a number of universities in Inida and England, including Delhi University, the London School of Economics, the University of London and the Oxford University, before moving to Harvard University. In 1998 he was appointed master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is best known for his work on the nature of poverty and the cause of famine. He devised methods for measuring poverty. His economic theories led to the development of practical solutions for preventing the shortage of food during a famine. His interest in famine was may be, from personal experience. As a nine year old boy, he witnessed the Bengal famine of 1943, in which three million people perished. HE has authored several books and essays on various aspects of social welfare and development. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to selfare economics. He is the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize for Economics. He received the Bharat Ratna in 1999.