Youngest-ever winner of Nobel Economics Prize 'wants to inspire other women'

A trio of Americans on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work in the fight against poverty, including Esther Duflo, the youngest-ever economics laureate and only the second woman to win the prize.

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer, winners of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2019. Source: AAP

US-based economists Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work fighting poverty that has helped millions of children.

French-American Ms Duflo becomes only the second woman to win the economics prize in its 50-year history, as well as the youngest at 46.

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