Ramesh Chandra Das is Professor of Economics at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Calcutta. Dr. Das has about twenty five years of teaching and research experience in different fields of economics consisting of theoretical and applied macroeconomics, financial economics, environmental economics, and political economics. He has contributed more than 100 research papers to journals and books published by leading international publishers and has completed three research projects (MRPs) sponsored by the University Grants Commission, India. Dr. Das has co-authored text books on microeconomics and macroeconomics and is Editor-in-Chief in Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management, and Editor of International Journal of Research on Social and Natural Sciences. He has edited a number of volumes on globalization, investment and growth, economic and political convergence, infrastructure, microfinance, military expenditure, terrorism, etc., three of which are by leading scholarly book publishers including Springer. He was also Guest Editor of IJSEM Special Issue (two parts).