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Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an economist and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences ("Nobel Prize for Economics") in 1998, for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, becoming the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He is currently the Lamont University Professor at Harvard University. Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He received the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India 1999. The same year, he received honorary citizenship of Bangladesh and the Companion of Honour, UK, in 2000.
