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Show Thursday, October 15. IW8. THE DAILY HERALD. Provo, Utah Page AI7 Scholar whose work helps the poor wins Nobel in economics By JUDIE GLAVE Associated Press Writer - NEW YORK Amartya Sen, who saw the effects of starvation firsthand as a child in his native India, won the Nobel Prize in economics Wednesday for his work on how famines unfold and how to take the poor into account in calculating a nation's wealth. Sen, a master at Britain's Trinity College in Cambridge, was honored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his contributions to what is known as welfare economics. Mis work looks at such factors as income distribution and health in measuring poverty. "I was surprised and quite pleased when I got the call," Sen, 64, said in New York. "But was even more pleased when they told me the subject matter was welfare economics, a field I have long been very involved in. I am pleased that they gave recognition to that subject." n In his work, the 1981 book "Poverty and Famines: An on Essay Entitlement and Deprivation," Sen challenged the view that famine is caused solely or primarily by a shortage of food. He wrote that famines sometimes result from distribution like the ones many problems African nations experienced in the late 1980s and early 1990s and simple economics. best-know- "Famines can occur even when the food supply is high but people can't buy the food because they don't have the money," he said. In the 1974 Bangladesh famine, for example, he said flooding significantly raised food prices, while jobs for agricultural workers declined. Because of this, the real incomes of agricultural workers declined so much that they were disproportionately stricken by starvation. Sen became interested in the dynamics of famine in part by his own experience during India's famine in 1943, when he 9 years old. The former Harvard profes Economists agreed that the field has long been overlooked and that the usual indicators of are not a nation's well-beinenough. sor has also said economists must look beyond gross national g product when studying a nation's wealth Amartya Sen because GNP "overlooks the fact that many people are terribly poor." Sen developed alternative indexes that also include factors such as income distribution. "We have to pay attention to the downside of what's hap- pening and not just the average, majority position," he said. "Just looking at GNP or GNP growth for a country like India might not be a very good way to say, 'Is the development plan of the country really help- said Jerry ing people?'" Hausman, economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute By e The Nobel Prizes were estab- lished in the will of Alfred Joseph Duncan, a former government economist and current chief economic adviser to Dun & Bradstreet Corp., said Sen's choice was an interesting Nobel, 1 Democrat tries to turn tables on Starr singer near-collaps- of Technology. Fall Sale Haggar to Save on our entire stock October 1 contrast to last year's winners, Americans Robert Merton and Myron Scholes, whose work generally benefited the rich. The Americans were honored for their work on valuing risky investment known as derivatives. But they came under a cloud last month after the of a giant hedge fund in which they were partners. 5 the Swedish industrial- ist and inventor of dynamite. The final Nobel to be given this the peace prize year be awarded on Friday. will 31 ft LAURENCE ARNOLD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The voice of Rep. 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