My last meeting with Professor Abhijit Sen was just a week ago, before his untimely death due to a heart attack on August 29. We were trying to make sense of trends in the Indian economy, particularly in poverty, inequality and…
One of the country’s foremost experts on agriculture and rural economy, Prof. Abhijit Sen died on Monday night. The economist and former Planning Commission member suffered a heart attack. He was 72. Sen’s academic career spanned over four decades. A…
Our colleague, Professor Abhijit Sen, who taught at the Centre of Economics and Planning, passed away due to cardiac arrest, late on August 29, 2022. His health had never fully recovered after his asthmatic lungs which took a further battering…
With the passing of professor Abhijit Sen, the country has lost one of its most sensitive, progressive and grounded economists. Professor Sen’s contributions to academia as well as policymaking were significant, with his best-known work in the areas of agriculture,…
