Biswajit Chatterjee is a leading development economist of the country. He is a Retired Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University, where he was the Head of Department of Economics and also Dean, Faculty of Arts. The major areas of his teaching and research have been macroeconomic theory, international trade theory and policy, balance of payments, development economics, and Indian economic development and policies. He has published regularly in national and international journals of repute, contributed to edited volumes, and has published 8 books and 14 edited volumes on different branches of development economics. Professor Chatterjee also delivers lectures at various conferences throughout the globe. He was consultant to the World Bank, UNDP and the Planning Commission. He was President of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) for two consecutive years; President Indian Society of Labour Economics, 2014, besides being President of Bengal Economic Association for the period April 2005 to March 2014, and again from February 2017 till date. He was the Conference President of the Indian Economic Association (IEA) 2023 conference. Asim K. Karmakar is currently Assistant Professor in Economics, School of Professional Studies, Netaji Subhash Open University, Kalyani, India. He was earlier Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is presently the Joint Secretary of the IEA and was also formerly the Executive Committee member of TIES; and the current Managing Editor of Artha Beekshan (journal of the Bengal Economic Association). He has published co-edited and edited books published by Springer as well as research articles (more than 150) in journals published by Springer, IGI Global, Emerald and Palgrave Macmillan.