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Thursday, December 10, 1998 Published at 00:59 GMT
World: South Asia
Amartya Sen receives Nobel prize
The Indian economist, Amartya Sen has received the Nobel prize for economics at a ceremony in Stockholm.
Professor Sen of Cambridge University is the first Asian to be given the award, which carries a cash prize of nearly $1m.
He was chosen for his work on welfare economics and particularly the causes of famine and ways to prevent it.
After experiencing a devastating famine in his home state of Bengal in 1943, Professor Sen undertook extensive research on famines in India, China and Africa.
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