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Detailed explanation-1: -Amartya Sen is famous for his significant contributions to welfare economics (for which he was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics), including his development of more sophisticated measures of poverty, and for his work on the causes and prevention of famines.
Detailed explanation-2: -1. Amartya Sen has been called the Mother Teresa of Economics for his work on famine, human development, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality, and political liberalism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sen’s revolutionary contribution to development economics and social indicators is the concept of “capability” developed in his article Equality of What. He argues that governments should be measured against the concrete capabilities of their citizens.