Understanding Development An Indian Perspective on Legal and Economic Policy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Banerjee, Swapnendu (Editor), Mukherjee, Vivekananda (Editor), Haldar, Sushil Kumar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: India Studies in Business and Economics,
• Subjects: Trade.; Business.; Commerce.; Public law.; Public finance.; Law and economics.; Development economics.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Public Law.; Public Economics.; Law and Economics.

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 coun...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Does an employment protection law matter? A panel data analysis of selected OECD countries, 1985-2012
• 3. Network of legal citations: an analysis of some supreme court decisions on land acquisition in India
• 4. Surrogacy Contracting and Intermediation
• 5. Sharecropping in theory and practice: a selective review
• 6. Trade in Intermediate Goods, Endogenous Growth and Intellectual Property Rights
• 7. Multi-market Firms and Export Quota: Effects of Withdrawal of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement
• 8. Does foreign aid corrupt? : A theoretical note
• 9. Public-private Partnerships and Governance
• 10. Principles of Allocating Development Grant at Sub-National Level in India: A Suggested Methodology
• 11. Fiscal rule and social sector spending: A study of north east India
• 12. An Analysis on Impact of Employment Generation Policies on Rural Women in West Bengal, India
• 13. Poverty in Best Bengal:  a review of recent performance and programmes
• 14. The Impact of MGNREGS on Rural Households: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
• 15. Does parental education have any role to play on female child disadvantage?. 16. School attendance and employment of youth in India: Convergence across caste and religious groups?
• 17. Adverse Effect of Bio-mass Fuel use on Pregnancy Outcome in Rural India.