Amartya
Sen gets lifetime achievement award
Bangkok: Nobel laureate Amratya Sen has been given
the Lifetime Achievement Award by UNESCAP as part of its
60th anniversary celebrations. The executive secretary
of the Bangkok-based UN Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific, Kim Hak-Su described Sen as
a citizen of the Asian and Pacific region during the presentation
ceremony on Wednesday.
A
UN Information Service office statement said "Professor
Sen's seminal contributions have revolutionised contemporary
thinking and profoundly affected the policies of the United
Nations and countries across the globe."
Kim
Hak-Su noted that, "Professor Sen's writings on social
choice, welfare distribution, poverty, famines, democracy,
individual freedom and human identity have extended the
forntiers of contemporary thinking on some of the most
pressing issues facing the region."
Born
in 1933, in India, Professor Sen was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Economics in 1998, the only Asian to date to
have been so honoured, for his contributions to welfare
economics.
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