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Ajit Karnik is a Professor of Economics at Middlesex University, Dubai. He was Reserve Bank of India Professor of Political Economy and Director, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai. He has been Indo-American Fellow, University of Texas at Austin; Visiting Scholar, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge; British Council Higher Education Link Visitor, University of Ulster (Belfast); Fulbright Fellow, University of California at Berkeley; and Smuts Fellow, Wolfson College and Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge. He has supervised 11 Ph.D. theses, 5 M.Phil. dissertations and over 50 M.B.A. dissertations. Ajit Karnik’s research specialisations comprise political economy, fiscal economics, economic growth and applied econometrics. He has published 37 papers in refereed journals, 12 papers in edited books, 90 other papers (including conference and working papers), 3 authored books and 5 edited books. He has undertaken consultancy for Government of Maharashtra (India), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), World Bank, and Unilever India, and is a referee for the International Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Sports Economics, Publius: Journal of Federalism and Public Budgeting and Finance.