Understanding Development: An Indian Perspective on Legal and Economic Policy

✍ Scribed by Swapnendu Banerjee, Vivekananda Mukherjee, Sushil Kumar Haldar (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer India
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Series: India Studies in Business and Economics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses topical development issues in India, ranging from land acquisition, poverty alleviation programs, labor market issues, the public-private partnership (PPP) model and fiscal federalism. It offers an Indian perspective on the dynamics of economic development and the impact the country’s legal and public policies have on it. Economic development is a dynamic concept – old problems are solved, while at the same time new issues come to the fore. The emergence of these issues is unique to the development experience of an economy. The book includes sixteen recent contributions and is divided into four sections: law and contract; trade and foreign aid; issues in public economics; and the social sector and poverty alleviation. The chapters reflect on a number of development issues which were of concern for India in the recent past and will be important in her future development initiatives such as land acquisition, agricultural productivity, employment, protection of intellectual property rights, corruption, public-private partnership, regional development, poverty alleviations programs like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the training of self-help group members, health and education of women, to name a few. The book is a valuable reference resource for policy practitioners and researchers working on the economics of development with special focus on developing economies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Editors’ Note....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Does an Employment Protection Law Matter? A Panel Data Analysis of Selected OECD Countries, 1985–2012....Pages 9-23
Network of Legal Citations: An Analysis of Some Supreme Court Decisions on Land Acquisition in India....Pages 25-35
Surrogacy Contracting and Intermediation....Pages 37-51
Sharecropping in Theory and Practice: A Selective Review....Pages 53-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Trade in Intermediate Goods, Endogenous Growth and Intellectual Property Rights....Pages 75-97
Multi-Market Firms and Export Quota: Effects of Withdrawal of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement....Pages 99-113
Does Foreign Aid Corrupt? A Theoretical Note....Pages 115-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Public–Private Partnerships and Governance....Pages 127-140
Principles of Allocating Development Grant at the Sub-National Level in India: A Suggested Methodology....Pages 141-154
Fiscal Rule and Social Sector Spending: A Study of North-East India....Pages 155-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
An Analysis on the Impact of Employment Generation Policies on Rural Women in West Bengal, India....Pages 175-190
Poverty in West Bengal: A Review of Recent Performance and Programmes....Pages 191-205
The Impact of MGNREGS on Rural Households: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment....Pages 207-218
Does Parental Education Have Any Role to Play on Female Child Disadvantage?....Pages 219-235
School Attendance and Employment of Youth in India: Convergence Across Caste and Religious Groups?....Pages 237-264
Adverse Effect of Biomass Fuel Use on Pregnancy Outcome in Rural India....Pages 265-272

✦ Subjects

Development Economics; Public Law; Trade; Public Economics; Law and Economics