Prof. Partha Pratim Sengupta is Professor of Economics and Head at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. He has been teaching at the institute for thirty-five years, out of which twenty years were devoted to teaching at PG level and research. More than twenty students have been awarded doctorate degree under the supervision of Prof. Sengupta. He has published more than one hundred research papers in national and international peer reviewed journals. He has been invited to deliver lectures at several conferences in India and abroad. He has also contributed chapters to edited volumes and has received several national and international academic awards. His areas of research interest include international economics, business economics, development economics and entrepreneurship management.

Prof. Anil Bhuimali, Ph.D., D.Litt., D.S.A., is the first Vice-Chancellor of Raiganj University, West Bengal, India and a former Professor of Economics, University of...