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Soumyen Sikdar is a Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He obtained his undergraduate and Master's degrees from Presidency College and the University of Calcutta, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, USA. He has more than 40 years of experience in teaching and research, and has been a Visiting Professor at Shenzhen University, China, and the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, Japan. Professor Sikdar has authored numerous research publications in internationally respected journals and three books on macroeconomics and globalization released by international publishers. His research interests include industrial organization theory, open economy macroeconomics and development economics.



Ramesh Chandra Das is an Associate Professor of Economics at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India, with twenty years of teaching and research experience. He completed his Master's, M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Calcutta. His research has been published in journals of national and international repute, and three of his research projects were sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC), India. Prof. Das has edited e.g. the Handbook of Research on Globalization, Investment and Growth: Implications of Confidence and Governance; Handbook of Research on Global Indicators of Economic and Political Convergence; Handbook of Research on Economic, Financial, and Industrial Impacts on Infrastructure Development; and The Impact of Global Terrorism on Economic and Political Development: Afro-Asian Perspectives. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management (Asian Research Consortium) and an Editorial Advisory Board member in the Society for the Study on Business and Finance.

Rajib Bhattacharyya is an Associate Professor of Economics at Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration,