The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Kolkata-born American economist Abhijit Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo and American development economist Michael Kremer. The trio won the award "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." Esther had completed her PhD in Economics in 1999, under supervision of Abhijit.

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