Current Event :Barack Obama to felicitate Amartya Sen with National Humanities Medal

India-born Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will be felicitated by US
President Barack Obama for his efforts to increase the understanding
of how to fight hunger and poverty.

US President Barack Obama would felicitate Sen, 78, with the 2011
National Humanities Medal, along with others, the White House
announced.

The White House said the award is being given to Sen for his insights
into the causes of poverty, famine, and injustice.

"By applying philosophical thinking to questions of policy, he has
changed how standards of living are measured and increased our
understanding of how to fight hunger," the White House said as it
announced the list of awardees.

The First Lady would also attend the awards ceremony for the 2011
National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal scheduled on
February 13.

The 2011 National Medal of Arts would be awarded to Will Barnet, Rita
Dove, Al Pacino, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Martin Puryear, Mel Tillis,
United Service Organization and Andre Watts.

The 2011 National Humanities Medal will be given to Kwame Anthony
Appiah, John Ashbery, Robert Darnton, Andrew Delbanco, National
History Day, Charles Rosen, Teofilo Ruiz, and Ramon Saldivar, besides
Amartya Sen.

Amartya Sen won his Nobel Prize for economics in 1998 for his studies
of the roots of poverty.

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