Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer Win Nobel Economics Prize For 2019

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They were awarded for studies on poverty.

Associated Press

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobel Economics Prize for 2019 awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for studies on poverty.

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 Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 14, 2019

The research conducted by the 2019 Economic Sciences 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 flourishing field of research.#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/mYOdoudVij
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 14, 2019

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