“Amartya Sen Prize” Award Ceremony was held online on 5 June 2021during the 19th World Congress of the International Economic Association (IEA). The Award Ceremony was hosted by Professor Kaushik Basu, the current president of the IEA. Professor Eric Maskin attended the ceremony and gave a keynote speech after the ceremony. Professor Shuguang Jiang from our Center was awarded one of the two Amartya Sen Prizes.

“Amartya Sen Prize” was newly-instituted by the IEA. The two prizes were given for the two best papers/essays from scholars below the age of 40, citizens and residents of developing countries and in the areas of development economics, welfare economics and moral philosophy. The IEA was founded in 1950 as a Non-Governmental Organization, at the instigation of the Social Sciences Department of UNESCO. Its aim from the beginning has been to promote personal contacts and mutual understanding among economists in different parts of the world through the organization of scientific meetings, through common research programs and by means of publications of an international character on problems of current importance.