NOBEL PRIZE 2019 IN ECONOMICS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 to Abhijit Banerjee Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Michael Kremer Harvard University, Cambridge, USA “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” Their research is helping us fight poverty Abhijit Banerjee , born 1961 in Mumbai, India. Ph.D. 1988 from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Esther Duflo , born 1972 in Paris, France. Ph.D. 1999 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Michael Kremer , born 1964. Ph.D. 1992 from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Gates Profe