Understanding Development: An Indian Perspective on Legal and Economic Policy

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

Chapter 1 Editors’ Note

Part I Law and Contracts
Chapter 2 Does an Employment Protection Law Matter? A Panel Data Analysis of Selected OECD Countries, 1985–2012
Chapter 3 Network of Legal Citations: An Analysis of Some Supreme Court Decisions on Land Acquisition in India
Chapter 4 Surrogacy Contracting and Intermediation 333003_1_En_4_Chapter.indd:Surrogacy Contracting and Intermediation
Chapter 5 Sharecropping in Theory and Practice:A Selective Review

Part II Trade and Foreign Aid
Chapter 6 Trade in Intermediate Goods, Endogenous Growth and Intellectual Property Rights
Chapter 7 Multi market Firms and Export Quota: Effects of Withdrawal of the Multi fiber Arrangement
Chapter 8 Does Foreign Aid Corrupt? A Theoretical Note

Part III Issues in Public Economics
Chapter 9 Public–Private Partnerships and Governance
Chapter 10 Principles of Allocating Development Grant at the Sub national Level in India: A Suggested Methodology
Chapter 11 Fiscal Rule and Social Sector Spending: A Study of North East India

Part IV Social Sector and Poverty Alleviation
Chapter 12 An Analysis on the Impact of Employment Generation Policies on Rural Women in West Bengal, India
Chapter 13 Poverty in West Bengal: A Review of Recent Performance and Programmes
Chapter 14 The Impact of MGNREGS on Rural Households: Evidence from a Quasi experiment
Chapter 15 Does Parental Education Have Any Role to Play on Female Child Disadvantage?
Chapter 16 School Attendance and Employment of Youth in India: Convergence Across Caste and Religious Groups?
Chapter 17 Adverse Effect of Biomass Fuel Use on Pregnancy Outcome in Rural India