Mayawati: Abhijit Banerjee's achievement should not be politicized

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday congratulated Indian-origin economist Abhijeet Banerjee for winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Mayawati took to Twitter and stated that every Indian should be proud of this achievement. She further stated that the achievement should not be seen from a political perspective. 

"Congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee for the experimental approach to alleviating poverty and winning the Nobel Prize. But it is completely wrong to see this from a political perspective, every Indian should be proud of this achievement," Mayawati tweeted in Hindi. 

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About Laureate Abhijit Banerjee 

Banerjee, an Indian-origin economist, and an academic professor was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He won the coveted award along with his French-American wife Esther Duflo and American economist Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."

The 58-year-old Kolkata-born economist is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He pursued his education at the University of Calcutta, Jawarharlal Nehru University, and acquired his Ph.D. in 1988 from Harvard University.

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Nobel Prize winners worked on issues to alleviate poverty

All three winners have worked together on the microeconomic issues that majorly focus on the developing countries. Their experiments were focused on alleviating poverty from the world. Esther Duflo along with her spouse, Abhijit Banerjee, has done extensive work on how global poverty is impacted by household behaviour, the importance of education, access to monetary stability, health care and policymaking. 

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(with ANI inputs)