New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated Indian-origin economist and academic Abhijit Banerjee on winning the Nobel Economics Prize along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
President Ram Nath Kovind in a tweet said, “Congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer on winning “the Nobel prize” in economic Science “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.
Their research has helped economists better understand how to fight poverty in India & the world.”
“Extremely happy to note that eminent #economist Shri Abhijit Banerjee is among the 3 Nobel laureates awarded the prize for #economics this year,” Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said.
“Congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee on being conferred the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He has made notable contributions in the field of poverty alleviation,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted.
“I also congratulate Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for winning the prestigious Nobel,” he added.
Born in Mumbai, the 58-year-old economist is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the MIT.
Banerjee and Duflo, who incidentally are a couple, both have written a noted book titled “Poor Economics”.
