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Vinod B. Annigeri is currently serving as Professor and Director of the Centre For Multi-disciplinary Development Research (CMDR), Dharwad, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Mangalore University, India. He has served as a consultant for many national and international organizations and has worked on research studies funded by the Ford Foundation, Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada, Department for International Development (DFID), and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), to name a few. He was part of the WHO's international team for the development of Reproductive Health Accounts. He has to his credit some of the most pioneering studies on health accounts at the micro level. His core areas of interest include issues relating to the economics of education and health. He played a key role in the formation of the Indian Health Economics and Policy Association (IHEPA) and has served as the Founder Joint Secretary of this association for six years. His papers have been published in journals of national and international repute. He has also co-authored two books on Health Education and Development in 2006 with Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai and Serials Publication, New Delhi. 

R.S. Deshpande is currently Director and Advisor at the Centre for Development Studies, PES University, Bangalore, India. He is an ex-Director and Honorary Visiting Professor of the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore. He is also a former Rajiv Gandhi National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). In addition to numerous research studies, Dr. Deshpande steered the mega study on "Farmer at the Millennium". He has authored 17 books and has published more than 140 research papers in national and international journals. He has been invited as Visiting Professor to institutions such as University of Ottawa, Canada; Saskatchewan Institute of Policy Planning, Regina; University of