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.

List of Figures ix List of Tables x Foreword xii Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv 1 Conceptual Issues in Economic Research 1 2 Introduction of Research in Economics 43 3 Literature Review in Economic Research 78 4 Problem Definition, Theoretical Framework, and Hypothesis Formulation in Economic Research 131 5 Research Design in Economics Research 193 6 Measurement Scales, Sampling, and Operational Definition of Variables in Economics Research 238 7 Data Collection and Data Analysis in Economics 278 8 Topic Selection and Proposal Development for Economics Research 345 9 Development and Evaluation of Research Report for Economics Research 368 10 Developing, Preparing, and Publishing an Academic Paper 403 Annexure 1 491 Annexure 2 516 Bibliography 528 Index 535