PL Beena Editor

PL Beena is Professor at the Centre for Developmental Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. She was awarded South Asia visiting scholar fellowship from Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford before joining CDS. Her main areas of research are in the field of corporate mergers, Inward and outward FDI through CBM&As and antitrust policies; innovation and competition in the high-tech sectors under the new IPR regime; MSMEs and women-owned enterprises; WTO agreements and textile & clothing sector in South Asia; Globalization, SEZ, and industrialization in Kerala.

Thiagu Ranganathan is Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. Since his PhD at IIT Bombay, he has worked on issues in agricultural economics and development economics including agricultural price risk management and implications of water scarcity on rural livelihood diversification.