Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:43:09 -0400
From: Partha Banerjee <partha-AT-capital.net>
Subject: Amartya Sen from India wins Nobel Prize in Economics



 October 14, 1998
 Web posted at: 6:06 a.m. EDT (0606 GMT)

  STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Amartya
  Sen, an Indian expert on poverty and hunger
  who teaches at Britain's Trinity College in
  Cambridge, on Wednesday won the Nobel
  Prize in economics.

 He was awarded the prestigious prize "for
  his contributions to welfare economics,"
  which have helped in the understanding of
  the economic mechanisms underlying
  famines and poverty, the Royal Swedish
 Academy of Sciences said in its citation.