Amartya Sen Biography

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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, November 3, 1933 in Santiniketan, West Bengal had happened. In addition to being a world-renowned economist, Amartya Sen, is also a philosopher. Cambridge University, the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college, Trinity College has served as a master. Currently Lamont University Professor at Harvard University, Amartya Sen traces its roots to a great lineage. His father, Ashutosh Sen taught chemistry at Dhaka University. Amartya Dhaka in Bangladesh in 1941 after completing his high school education in 1947, her family moved to India, Sen Presidency College, Kolkata and Delhi School of Economics before going to study in the United Kingdom over to complete their higher studies to do . He his doctorate from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1959 he earned the University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University, Oxford, the London School of Economics, Harvard and has taught at prestigious universities, including many others.

His works helped develop the theory of social choice. In 1981, he published his famous work, poverty and famine: entitlement and absence on an essay, where he showed that famine occurs not only due to lack of food, but of inequality in the distribution of food to the system. The Bengal famine of 1943 he personally developing the field of economics, of which the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report has had a tremendous impact on the formulation was seen in the important work.

He titled a famous but controversial article in The New York Review of the book was written "more than 100 million women are missing", which he mortality rate in developing countries is the impact of unequal power between the genders, mainly Asia, a claim that was contested by many to be analyzed. Married three times, he presently Emma Georgina Rothschild, King's College, Cambridge, is married to a partner. He said that the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor, in 1999. In the same year he was awarded honorary citizenship of Bangladesh received. Eisenhower in 2000. In 2002 he received the Medal for leadership and service in the United States, the International Humanist and Ethical Union, was awarded by the International Humanitarian Award.

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