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common property resources and institutional economics. He was the Secretary of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) during 2012-14.

Amita Shah is a professor and the former Director at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research. Her major areas of research interest include natural resource development with special focus on dry-land agriculture and forestry, environmental impact assessment, gender and environment, the agriculture-industry interface, small scale and rural industries, diffusion of technologies, and employment-livelihood issues. More recently, she has been involved in a number of studies pertaining to participatory watershed development, protected area management, economic valuation of bio-diversity, and chronic poverty in remote rural areas, migration and status of women in agriculture. She has published nearly 100 research papers in professional journals and books and participated in a number of academic seminars. She has co-authored a book and jointly edited three books pertaining to agriculture, sustainable development and gender. She has been invited as a visiting fellow/scholar to academic institutions in the United Kingdom, China, France, the Netherlands and Canada. She was the President of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics in 2012-14.

Manoj Panda holds a PhD in economics from the Indian Statistical Institute. He is currently Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He has served as the Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad (2008-2012), as a Professor and an Associate Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai (1992-2012) and as a senior economist at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi (1982-92). He spent a year at Yale University, USA on a post-doctoral fellowship (1996-97). His research areas span monitoring and analysis of macroeconomic trends and prospects, evaluation of alternative trade and fiscal policy options from the point of view of growth and distribution, development and application of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, construction of Social Accounting Matrices (SAM), measurement and policy issues in poverty and human development and interaction of carbon emission with economic growth and its pattern. He has undertaken short-term assignments for several international organizations including the World Bank, ADB, UNDP, FAO, UN-ESCAP, IFPRI, MacArthur Foundation and Carnegie Endowment. He has published extensively in journals and edited books.