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18 October 1984 THIS YEAR’S PRIZE IN ECONOMICS AWARDED FOR PIONEERING WORK IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS has decided to award the 1984 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Professor Sir Richard Stone, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national…

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Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes, through the presentation of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, to direct attention to a unifying leader figure in the campaign to solve South Africa’s apartheid problem by peaceful means. The situation…

Bishop Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal. His father was a teacher, and he himself was educated at Johannesburg Bantu High School. After leaving school he trained first as a teacher at Pretoria Bantu Normal College and in 1954 he graduated from the University of South Africa. After three years as a…

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has chosen to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1984 to Bishop Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. The Committee has attached importance to Desmond Tutu’s role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa. The means by which this campaign…

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