Mahendra Pal, Ph. D. (Economics), Emeritus Fellow at Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. He has taught Money, Finance and African Economics for three decades. He is an acclaimed author of the book, “World Bank and the Third World Countries of Asia” (1985). His work domain includes testing the five models empirically with the Indian data: Polak (Monetary Model); Bacha (Joint-Fund Bank Model); McKinnon (Complementarity); Shaw (Financial Deepening); Ohlin (Grant Element). He has nearly 30 international-national publications and has delivered academic talks across the globe. His current research area is Foreign Capital and Growth nexus in India.