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Madhusudan Ghosh is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal (India). He was a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), and a Visiting Professor at Soka University, Tokyo (Japan). He was awarded Post-doctoral Fellowship in Economics by the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, and Dr. D.K Desai Memorial Prize (four times) by the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Mumbai. He is an active researcher and has been teaching for the last 34 years. He has published books such as Liberalization, Growth and Regional Disparities in India (Springer, 2013); Economic Reforms and Indian Economic Development: Selected Essays (Bookwell, 2008) and Rural Development in India: Challenges and Prospects (Co-edited; Serials Publications, 2013); and numerous research papers in reputed national and international peer-reviewed professional journals. He has also workedon research projects sponsored by University Grants Commission, New Delhi. Debashis Sarkar is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Department of Agricultural Extension, Agricultural Economics & Agricultural Statistics, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan. He also served as Director, Agro-Economic Research Centre, Visva-Bharati for two years. He has completed many research projects sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC), National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP), Directorate of Jute Development, Government of India, Directorate of Crop Production, Government of India, and Directorate of PPQ&S, Government of India. He has published seven books (four edited) and many articles in reputed national and international peer-reviewed journals. Bidhan Chandra Roy is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Department of Agricultural Extension, Agricultural Economics & Agricultural Statistics, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan. Before joining Visva-Bharati, he served as a Scientist at National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP), New Delhi. He has developed an interactive policy dialogue model to assess the water and food security scenarios at agro-ecological region level in India. He has published a book and many articles in reputed national and international peer-reviewed journals.
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