Abhijit Banerjee
Meanwhile, economist Abhijit Banerjee who is the chief of Bengal's global advisory board, said the state would definitely win against the coronavirus.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist discussed the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in a conversation with Rahul Gandhi.
While the Nobel-winning economist thinks a quick recovery is possible barring 'policy mistakes', he also said this could be bigger than the 1991 crisis and result in a 10-15% drop in India's GDP.
Banerjee said that the banking sector was facing a huge crisis and that the Modi government needed to be more open to criticism.
Sen had won the same award in 1998.
Banerjee, Duflo and Harvard professor Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.
Banerjee studied at the University of Calcutta and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India.
They were awarded for studies on poverty.