Författare: Soumyadip Chattopadhyay

Dr Achiransu Acharyya is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He was awarded a teaching cum research assistantship in 2007 at University of Oregon, USA and a Visiting Fellowship at University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands in 2003. He was awarded the third prize for the essay entitled “Scope of Public Economics for the environmentally handicapped in South Asia” in the James D. Wolfensohn Essay Competition by The World Bank. He has completed Research Projects funded by the UGC and Government of West Bengal. He has several research papers to his credit in various national and international peer-reviewed journals in Economics as also chapters in edited books at the national and international levels. Soumyadip Chattopadhyay teaches at the Department of Economics and Politics, Visva Bharati University. He was associated with Graduate School of Geography Clark University as a C V Raman Fellow and Department of Urban Studies and Planning University of Sheffield as a Commonwealth Academic Fellow. His research interests lie in the field of development studies and more specifically focuses on urban finance, urban inequality and ongoing transformations in urban governance in Indian cities. His research works have been published in the Progress in Development Studies, Development in Practice, Environment and Urbanization ASIA, Journal of Infrastructure Development, South Asian Survey, Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Economics, Urban India, Local Government Quarterly, Journal of Rural Development, International Journal of Regulation and Governance and Journal of Development Policy and Practice, as well as in other Journals and edited volumes. He is currently serving as one of the Associate Editors of International Journal of Rural Management. Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He was a visiting Professor at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has also taught at University of Calcutta, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata and S R Lahiri Mahavidyalaya, Majdia. He has worked on the related themes for the last two decades and published several research articles in various national and international peer-reviewed journals in Economics as well as edited quite a few books.