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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2020 — General Studies · Question 185 of 200

Q185
Current Affairs & General KnowledgeAwards & Honours
The first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics is
  1. a.Professor Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
  2. b.Professor Amartya Kumar Sen
  3. c.Professor V.K.R.V. Rao
  4. d.Professor T.N. Srinivasan

Answer: (B) Professor Amartya Kumar Sen

Amartya Sen won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, becoming the first Indian-born laureate in this category (Abhijit Banerjee, an Indian-born American economist, later shared the prize in 2019).

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