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British academic Angus Deaton has been awarded the Nobel economics prize for 2015 for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.British academic Angus Deaton has been awarded the Nobel economics prize for 2015 for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.
The 69-year-old professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University was previously at Cambridge and Bristol universities. The 69-year-old Princeton University professor said he was delighted to have won the prize.
Professor Deaton described himself as "someone who's concerned with the poor of the world and how people behave, and what gives them a good life".
His research focuses on health, wellbeing, and economic development.His research focuses on health, wellbeing, and economic development.
Professor Deaton had been in the running for the prize several times in past years. Torsten Persson, secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences award committee, said that Professor Deaton's work has had "enormous influence", particularly in India where the government had reshaped its measurement of poverty.
The Nobel economic sciences committee said that individuals' consumption choices must be understood before economic policy promoting welfare and reducing poverty could be formulated. It had also been very influential in the academic community by reshaping various branches of economics, he said.
"More than anyone else, Angus Deaton has enhanced this understanding. By linking detailed individual choices and aggregate outcomes, his research has helped transform the fields of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and development economics," the committee members said. While Professor Deaton expected extreme poverty to continue decreasing, he did not want to be "blindly optimistic" because "tremendous health problems among adults and children in India" still existed.
The work for which Edinburgh-born Professor Deaton has been honoured revolves around three questions: Professor Deaton said that half of Indian children were still malnourished: "For many people in the world, things are very bad indeed."
The academy said that individuals' consumption choices must be understood before economic policy aimed at reducing poverty could be formulated.
"More than anyone else, Angus Deaton has enhanced this understanding. By linking detailed individual choices and aggregate outcomes, his research has helped transform the fields of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and development economics."
The work for which Professor Deaton has been honoured revolved around three questions:
"His research has uncovered important pitfalls when comparing the extent of poverty across time and place," the committee said."His research has uncovered important pitfalls when comparing the extent of poverty across time and place," the committee said.
The award includes prize money of 8m Swedish kroner (£637,000, $950,000). The Edinburgh-born academic, who had been in the running for the prize several times in past years, was previously at Cambridge and Bristol universities.
The award includes prize money of 8m Swedish kronor (£637,000, $950,000).
The economics award was not created by Alfred Nobel in 1895, but was added by Sweden's central bank in 1968 as a memorial to the Swedish industrialist.The economics award was not created by Alfred Nobel in 1895, but was added by Sweden's central bank in 1968 as a memorial to the Swedish industrialist.
The Nobel prizes will be given to winners on 10 December at ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo.The Nobel prizes will be given to winners on 10 December at ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo.