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Former prime minister Manmohan Singh congratulated Indian-origin economist Abhijit Banerjee for getting the Nobel Prize and said his work on poverty alleviation and development of new techniques were truly path-breaking.
He said Banerjee's pioneering innovations in development economics were applicable and useful to policy making in developing countries such as India.
"My heartiest congratulations to you and your co-winners. Your scholarly work on poverty alleviation and development of new techniques such as Randomised Control trials are truly path breaking," Singh, a renowned economist himself, added.
Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo -- both working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) -- and Harvard University professor Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
Amartya Sen was the first Indian economist to win the Nobel Prize in 1998.
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