Nausheen Nizami is an Assistant Professsor of Economics in Gargi College, University of Delhi. She is also pursuing her PhD in Economics from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She has written a unit on Economic Reforms in India for IGNOU’s self-learning material for MA (Economics) programme and has also contributed to a research paper in the Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Labour economics, human development, econometrics and industrial economics are her areas of interest. Narayan Prasad, Professor of Economics in School of Social Sciences, has been associated with IGNOU since 1992. Prior to IGNOU, he has worked in several reputed organizations, such as, Association of Indian Universities and Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission. He has contributed more than 20 research papers in reputed national and international journals. He has completed three research projects and presently engaged in another major Research Project entitled ‘Assessment of Human well-being in India’, financially sponsored by ICSSR. He has written two books. Presently, he is the Director Research Unit, and is teaching research methodology and human development courses to MPhil and PhD students. Labour eco­nomics, human development, and research methodology are his areas of interest. He was awarded fellowship by UGC for visiting France to conduct a research study and was invited to deliver lectures on Vedanta at various places including New York, Washington and Los Angeles in the USA.