Managing Pandemic and Correcting Development Fundamentals: India's Great Challenge

Ajitava Raychaudhuri is currently Professor Emeritus and Head, Economics Department, Adamas Univeristy. Earlier, he retired as Professor and former Head and Coordinator of Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Economics as well as former Dean, Faculty of Arts of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. A Ph.D. from American University, USA, he was Senior Fulbright Scholar at Economic Growth Center, Yale University, USA, and Reid Hall Scholar in Residence of Columbia University, Paris Campus, France. He has undertaken several important projects from UNESCAP, ADB, World Bank, UNDP, PEP, etc. He has also written and edited several books and contributed numerous papers in international and national journals as well as in edited books.

Arpita Ghose is a Professor, Department of Economics, Chair-Professor (honorary), Panning and Development Unit (PDU), NITI Aayog, Government of India (GOI), Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata, India, former Dean, Faculty of Arts and Head, Department of Economics, JU. A Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, she worked on disequilibrium economics; has written and edited books; contributed numerous papers in international and national journals, edited books from reputed publisher on computable-general-equilibrium-models/ productivity/ efficiency analysis using data-envelopment-approach and stochastic-frontier-models/ applied time-series econometrics. She has presented various invited lectures/ research papers and chaired sessions at different international conferences/symposium, completed several important major projects funded by DFID-UNCTAD-GOI--JU--Trade Research Capacity-Building-Program/Shastri--Indo-Canadian Institute, Calgary, Canada/Department of Health and Family-Welfare, Government of West-Bengal, /UGC-UPE(University-as-Potential-for Excellence), JU/ICSSR/PDU, JU among others and is the joint PI of a collaborative research project of PDU, JU with NITI Aayog. She has supervised Ph.D. students;her major research interests are Econometrics/Macroeconomics/empirical models including International Trade / economics of social-sector and regional-development.

Ajitava Raychaudhuri目前是Adamas大學經濟學系的名譽教授和系主任。他曾擔任Jadavpur大學的經濟學系高級教授、前系主任和協調員，以及藝術學院前院長。他在美國大學獲得博士學位，曾任美國耶魯大學經濟增長中心的資深富布賴特學者，以及法國巴黎哥倫比亞大學里德廳駐校學者。他曾參與聯合國亞太經社會會議、亞洲開發銀行、世界銀行、聯合國開發計劃署等重要項目。他還撰寫和編輯了多本書籍，並在國際和國內期刊以及編輯的書籍中發表了許多論文。

Arpita Ghose是印度政府NITI Aayog規劃和發展單位的名譽教授，同時也是印度加爾各答Jadavpur大學經濟學系的教授。她曾擔任藝術學院的院長和經濟學系的系主任。她在印度統計研究所獲得博士學位，研究領域包括失衡經濟學。她撰寫和編輯了多本書籍，並在國際和國內期刊以及知名出版商的編輯書籍中發表了許多論文，內容涉及可計算一般均衡模型、生產力、效率分析、使用資料包絡分析法和隨機邊界模型、應用時間序列計量經濟學等。她曾在不同的國際會議/研討會上發表邀請演講/研究論文並擔任主席，完成了由DFID-UNCTAD-GOI-JU-貿易研究能力建設計劃/Shastri-印度加拿大研究所、卡爾加里、加拿大/西孟加拉邦政府衛生和家庭福利部/UGC-UPE（卓越潛力大學）JU/ICSSR/PDU，JU等資助的重要主要項目，並與NITI Aayog合作研究項目的聯合負責人。她指導過博士生，其主要研究興趣包括計量經濟學/宏觀經濟學/實證模型，包括國際貿易/社會部門經濟學和區域發展。