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Article: PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH HONOURS LONG-TIME FRIEND AMARTYA SEN
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- The Hindustan Times
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- December 19, 2008
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New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday honoured long-time friend and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on his 75th birthday at the "International Conference on Development, Freedom and Welfare" in the capital.
The prime minister also released a book "Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honour of Professor Amartya Sen" edited by Ravi Kanbur, professor at Cornell University, and Professor Kaushik Basu, chairman of the department of economics, also at Cornell University.
The conference is being organised jointly by the Institute of Human Development and Cornell University at Vigyan Bhavan in the ...