Panchanan Das

<p><strong>Panchanan Das</strong> is Professor of Economics and has been teaching Econometrics at the Department of Economics of the University of Calcutta (India) for more than two decades. Development economics, Indian economics, and applied macroeconomics are the broad research area of Prof. Das. He is associated with Indian Association of Research in National Income and Wealth (IARNIW), International Association of Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) and Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) by contributing research articles regularly in the conferences and seminars of these associations. Prof. Das has done a lot of research using Indian official statistics. The first edition of this book was published in 2019 by Springer and is used extensively by researchers, practitioners and students at Masters level. The German edition of this book was published in 2023 and has also shown very high usage. He has also published several articles on Indian macroeconomic problems, labour market issues, inequality and poverty in referred journals like <em>Economic and Political Weekly</em>, <em>Asian Development Review</em>, <em>American Journal of Applied Sciences</em>, <em>Journal of Income and Wealth</em> etc. and has also contributed chapters in different edited volumes. He was a major contributor of West Bengal Development Report &ndash; 2008, published in collaboration with the Planning Commission, Government of India.</p>