Panchanan Das is a Professor of Economics teaching Time Series and Panel Data. Econometrics at the Department of Economics of the University of Calcutta. Development Economics, Indian Economics, and Applied Macroeconomics are the broad research area of Prof. Das. He has published several articles on growth, inequality and poverty in referred journals and edited volume. He is a principal author of Economics I and Economics II, text books at the graduate level, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi. He is a major contributor of West Bengal Development Report – 2008, published by Academic Foundation, New Delhi, in collaboration with the Planning Commission, Government of India. He has also contributed to the Routledge volume, Springer volume, Science and Technology volume of the CSIR