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Kishor C. Samal is Professor of Economics in Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar. His areas of interest are Informal Sector and Industry, Poverty, Macro-economics, Natural Resource Management. He has published about 150 research papers in esteemed journals. His other important published books are Urban Informal Sector and Tax Structure and budgetary Trends. Besides, he has completed more than 30 research projects funded by ICSSR, ODI (London), SICI (Canada), CDS (UK), RAS (Moscow), NALCO, Government of Orissa, Planning Commission and Others.

Shibalal Mehar has been working as Lecturer in Economics in NCDS since 1997. His areas of interest are Environmental Economics, Disaster Management, Public Finance, Poverty and Development Economics. He has published more than 30 research papers in various journals. His recent published book is freedom from Hunger: Concept and Case Study.