Navigating the Indian Economic Policy Dealing with 21st Century Challenges

Arijita Dutta is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Centre for Urban Economic Studies, University of Calcutta. She is an alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata, CESP, JNU and University of Calcutta. Her research interest lies is Health Economics, Quantitative Development Economics, Labour Economics, Gender Economics and Economics of Entrepreneurship. She has been closely associated with health policy evaluation for the state of West Bengal and has published policy documents on health care in West Bengal. She is also engaged in action research on women entrepreneurs and is currently associated with the global project of Empowering Women Globally as a knowledge partner. She has taught in a number of foreign Universities and has been a visiting professor at University of Le Havre, France; UNU Merit, Maastricht, the Netherlands; ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany and Yamaguchi University, Japan.

Nitya Nanda is an economist and a public policy analyst with about three decades of experience in research, consulting and teaching. Currently, he is a professor at the Council for Social Development, a social science think tank based in New Delhi. Earlier he was with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), CUTS International and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). He received his education at the University of Calcutta and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Currently he works majorly on social development and social protection issues but his areas of interest also include international trade, industrialization, and energy and environment issues. Apart from many papers in national and international journals. He has authored and edited several volumes, including Expanding Frontiers of Global Trade Rules (2009), Hydro-Politics in GBM Basin (2015), India's Resource Security (2018), and India's Industrial Policy and Performance (2021).

Surajit Das has completed MA in 2000, MPhil in 2002 and PhD in 2010 from CESP, JNU. He is currently an assistant professor at CESP, JNU since 2013. Before that he has worked in Ambedkar University Delhi, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Kerala State Planning Board, Planning Commission and in the 12th Finance Commission of India. Dr. Das has published various articles in national and international journals and participated in various national and international conferences. His areas of interest includes macroeconomics, applied econometrics, fiscal and monetary policy, human development etc.

Sharat Kumar is an M.A. and Ph. D in Economics. He belongs to the first batch of students who passed out from the CESP. He began his career as a lecturer-in-economics and later joined the Indian Economic Service. He has worked in the Planning Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. He superannuated as Senior Economic Adviser, Government of India. He also served for a brief period as Reader-in-Economics at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy, Mussoorie. Instrumental in Afghanistan's development project, he represented India at the Commission of Social Development, United Nations in 2001. He has published articles in various reputed journals and has to his credit seven books