Shashanka Bhide""has been a senior researcher at NCAER for more than 25 years, including brief periods of work at the Australia South Asia Research Centre, Canberra during 1998 99 and as Professor during 2003 04 at Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He received his postgraduate education at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Iowa State University, Ames. His interests include macroeconomic modelling, agriculture and economic development. He has published a number of research articles, reports and other books on a range of issues relating to economic developm...