Jean Drèze
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Jean Drèze is an Indian Economist of Belgian origin. His co-authors include Nobel laureate in economics Amartya Sen, with whom he has written on famine, and Nicholas Stern, with whom he has written on policy reform when market prices are distorted. His 1992 article with Haris Gazdar, "Hunger and Poverty in Iraq, 1991", was one of the first assessments of Iraq's economy after the 1990 - 1991 Gulf war, and an early warning about the potential human costs of the Iraq sanctions.
Jean's father, Jacques, founded CORE, the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, at the Université catholique de Louvain.
Jean is currently an honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics. He is a former member of the National Advisory Council of India.
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Drèze has worked on many issues relating to development economics including hunger, education, gender inequality, childcare, school feeding, etc. His works combine standard economic methods (such as his articles relating to poverty in India) and tools that are used more commonly by anthropologists (such as his work on Palanpur). The combination of extensive field work along with more traditional quantitative work makes his work distinctive in the field of economics.
Apart from academic work he has been actively involved in many social movements including the peace movement, right to information campaign in India, right to food campaign in India, among others.
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