Fillon added that his ideas build upon those presented by Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen.
India-born Amartya Sen won the Nobel for Economics, the first Asian to do so.
In 2010, Time listed Amartya Sen (1998) among the 100 most influential people in the world.
As Amartya Sen has pointed out, civil and political rights are very important supports for social and economic rights.
The Idea of Justice, Nobel Prize Winner Amartya Sen asks : Where is the remedy for bad reason to be found?
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The report is presented by Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate who wants the Commonwealth to stand for something subtler than ballots and voting booths.
Economist Amartya Sen is the latest to join the list of critics after being wrongly quoted in the mainstream media a couple of times recently.
The Nobel committee's decision, like earlier awards to Amartya Sen and Daniel Kahneman, is a welcome shot in the arm for research that crosses disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has estimated that more than 100m women are "missing" worldwide - women who would have been around had they received similar healthcare, medicine and nutrition as men.
Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate and writer on the politics of famine, says rising demand (for example, from the Asian middle classes) and not failing productivity is the main reason for the current crisis.
Still, the little data we do have suggests women are the single most important vector of progress in the world today--measured by any standards, including the World Bank's, the United Nations' or Amartya Sen's.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has called upon Nobel prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen in his quest to find an alternative to the widely-used metrics of gross domestic product and gross national product.
His boss, Ashok Singhal, told a gathering of VHP faithful in December that Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen was helping Christianize India by advocating universal literacy--Christian schools presumably would do the job--and that the Nobel committee was in on the plot, having already given a peace prize to that famous Christian troublemaker Mother Teresa (Singhal subsequently denied the statement).
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