Niranjan Devkota is a faculty member at the Department of Economics, Patan Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He has over a decade of experience in teaching, research, and consulting. He has been employed in key positions like Head of the Research Department, Visiting Professor, Guest Editor, Managing Editor, and Academic Editor of various journals. He is known for his expertise in research methodology and quantitative data analysis and is a regular trainer for University Grants Commission (UGC) supported training programs. Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra is currently a faculty at the Department of Economics, ICFAI School of Social Sciences at the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) Deemed University, Hyderabad, India, and has more than two decades of experience in research, consulting, and teaching. His research areas are applied development economics, public policy, agricultural economics, trade and environment, water governance, institutions and policies, climate change and sustainable development, microfinance, and livelihood.
‘The concept, definition, and computation of quantitative and applied research methods in economics are addressed in this book using numerical examples. The book is helpful to anyone in other fields who wants to explore a quantitative approach, in addition to fresh graduates, researchers, and professors in the social sciences, business, and management.’ Dr. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. ‘This book provides theoretical and practical insights into the research process. It offers an overview of the fundamentals, including problem description, methodology, research design, data collecting, and analysis. It also offers helpful examples and detailed instructions to help with research-related problems. The writers offer their perspectives on how to write, edit, and publish scholarly works.’ Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Editor, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) and Chairman, Institute for Development Studies, Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam, India.