Work on India helped Brit bag Eco Nobel
Kounteya Sinha
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He has spent a considerable amount of time working on the connection between `stunting' among Indian children due to abysmally low calorie consumption and its connection with poverty in the country.He later concluded that widespread `growth faltering' was a human development disaster as height reflected early life nutrition which helps brains to grow.
On Monday , the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics to British economist Angus Deaton, who teaches at Princeton University , “for his analysis of consumption, poverty , and welfare“. He stud ied if the consumption of adult goods such as clothes, tobacco or alcohol diminish when a family has kids, and whether this reduction is greater when the child is a boy rather than a girl -an important correlation for India.
On Monday , the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics to British economist Angus Deaton, who teaches at Princeton University , “for his analysis of consumption, poverty , and welfare“. He stud ied if the consumption of adult goods such as clothes, tobacco or alcohol diminish when a family has kids, and whether this reduction is greater when the child is a boy rather than a girl -an important correlation for India.
Source: Times of India, 13-10-2015
