New Delhi:
Google nowadays honoured economist, professor, and author Sir W Arthur Lewis with a doodle, illustrated by Manchester-primarily based artist Camilla Ru. On this day in 1979, Sir W Arthur Lewis was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work to model the financial forces that influence establishing nations.
One of the pioneers in the field of contemporary improvement economics, Sir Lewis was the very first Black faculty member at the London School of Economics, very first Black particular person to hold a chair in a British university, and the very first Black instructor to acquire complete professorship at Princeton University.
Sir Lewis was born on January 23, 1915, in the Caribbean island of St Lucia. His parents, each college teachers, had been immigrants from Antigua. He full his college curriculum at the age of 14 and went to work as a clerk in the civil service. In 1932, he won a government scholarship and went on to study at the London School of Economics. Despite facing racial discrimination, at the age of 33, he became a complete professor – 1 of the highest distinctions of a tenured professor.
Sir W Arthur Lewis contributed immensely to the United Nations and shared his experience as an adviser to governments in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. He also helped establish and served as the very first president of the Caribbean Development Bank.
In honor of his lifelong achievements, the British government knighted W Arthur Lewis in 1963.