New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- US-based Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will soon be joining the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, where they plan to establish a new centre for development economics, the university announced on Friday.

The University of Zurich (UZH) stated that the married couple, currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will join its economics faculty starting July next year.

The announcement did not specify the reasons behind their decision to leave MIT. Duflo and Banerjee, along with Michael Kremer, were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."

(With inputs from AFP)

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