{"id":24046,"date":"2019-10-14T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=24046"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:41:01","slug":"economic-sciences-nobel-prize-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/economic-sciences-nobel-prize-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian American Abhijit Banerjee Wins Nobel in Economic Sciences for Work on Global Poverty Alleviation"},"content":{"rendered":"
So what if India rues not winning an Oscar in the best foreign film category every year; but the global Indian community boasts of and rejoices in the number of Nobel Prizes<\/strong> that Indians at home and abroad have earned to this day. Indian-origin Abhijit Binayak Banerjee has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his \u2018experimental approach to alleviating global poverty\u2019, and he shares it with wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer.<\/p>\n
Picture Credit: NPR.org<\/p><\/div>\n
The co-winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences have extensively studied and researched various topics on global poverty in connection with healthcare, education, agriculture, and gender inequality<\/strong>. They created and implemented new antipoverty programs based on their research findings. For instance, the remedial tutoring program which was created and implemented based on one of their studies has benefited more than five million school children in rural pockets of India.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe research conducted by this year\u2019s Nobel Laureates has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a thriving field of research,\u201d said the Nobel committee in a press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n