Persistent and Emerging Challenges to Development: Insights for Policy-Making in India (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811641800)

Supravat Bagli is currently working as an Associate Professor at the department of Economics, Presidency University, Kolkata. Before joining the Presidency University Dr. Bagli served the Department of Economics, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, as an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department. He has been engaged in teaching at undergraduate level since 2005 and post graduate level since 2012. His teaching area extends Microeconomics, Public Economics, Statistics, Advanced Econometrics. His research interests include rural development, poverty and inequality, microfinance, financial inclusion. He has published one book titled 'Group Centric Microfinance for Financial Inclusion Theories and Empirics' and over forty research papers in different reputed national and international journals like Journal of Rural Development, The Indian Economic Journal, The Indian Journal of Economics, The Asian Economic Review etc. and in different edited books from reputed publishing houses like Springer Nature, Emerald, IGI Global, Serial Publications.

Gagari Chakrabarti obtained M.Sc., M.Phil and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Calcutta. She is teaching since 2001 and is currently serving Presidency University, Kolkata as an Associate Professor in Economics. Chakrabarti has served as Dean of Students (additional charge) at Presidency University. She has, in her repute, a number of publications in national and international journals and monographs and edited volumes published from international publishing houses such as Springer and Palgrave MacMillan. Her research interest lies in the areas of Financial Economics, Financial Econometrics, Complex and chaotic financial markets and more recently, in emotional intelligence and problems of ethical decision making in workplaces.