The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded jointly to Indian-origin Abhijit Banerjee, French-American Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.' Duflo is only the second woman to win the Nobel Economics Prize in its 50-year existence, following Elinor Ostrom in 2009. Abhijit's mother, Nirmala Banerjee, on his research on global poverty alleviation said that he has a quality of explaining tough issues in simple language. (Photo | MIT Twitter)