Prof. Amartya Sen belongs to ____.

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Prof. Amartya Sen belongs to West Bengal.

Amartya Sen was born in West Bengal on November 3, 1933. He was an Indian Economist awarded the 1998 Nobel prize in Economic Sciences for his contribution to Welfare Economics and social choice theory and his interest in the problems of society's poorest members. Sen was best known for his work on the cause of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of an actual or perceived food shortage.

Sen was educated at the presidency college in Calcutta (now Kolkata). In 1998 he was appointed master of Trinity College, Cambridge-a position held until 2004 when he returned to Harvard as Lamont University Professor.

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