Meenakshi Rajeev Author

Meenakshi Rajeev is currently the Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change. She graduated from IIT Kanpur in Statistics and did her PhD in Mathematical Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. She has worked as a faculty/taught at the University of California at San Diego, Central Michigan University, USA, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, and Presidency College, Kolkata. Her areas of research include game theory, banking and credit market, industrial economics, and development economics. She has published more than 100 articles in reputed journals and as working papers from India and abroad. Her recent books "Emerging Issues in Economic Development" (with Sugata Marjit) and "Financial Access of the Urban Poor in India: A Story of Exclusion" are worth mentioning. She is co- Managing Editor for Springer published Journal of Social and Economic Development and is on the editorial board of other international journals. 

Supriya Bhandarkar is currently a PhD scholar at the Centre for Economic Studies and Policy, Institute for Social and Economic Change. She graduated from Mount Carmel College with a gold medal in Economics. Her area of research interest is industrial economics and international trade.