Amartya Sen gets lifetime achievement award
30 Mar 2007
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.
