Tag Search: “land”
Land acquisition and structural transformation in Bihar: An analysis of alternative approaches
This project has three main objectives: One, the construction and analysis of a theoretical framework to evaluate the various options open to the government of Bihar to facilitate land acquisition for...
- Sanjay Jain Chinmaya Kumar
- 31 August, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Land and financial misallocation in India
Optimising the allocation of factors of production – land, capital and labour - improves productivity. In India, where evidence suggests land is severely misallocated to inefficient manufacturing firm...
- Gilles Duranton Ejaz Ghani Arti Grover Goswami William Kerr
- 20 July, 2016
- Articles
Land in India: Market price vs. fundamental value
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015, is focused on protecting the few home buyers who can afford to buy homes but does not address the issue of high land prices, which is a very se...
- Gurbachan Singh
- 29 February, 2016
- Articles
Regulating land markets: The colonial inheritance
State intervention in markets is usually thought of as a post-independence phenomenon. However, this column demonstrates that extensive State intervention in land and credit transactions can be traced...
- Anand Swamy
- 10 February, 2016
- Articles
How has land acquisition impacted dalits? A case study from Maharashtra
Land ownership in Indian villages is inextricably linked to caste, with dalits owing little or no land. Based on a survey in Maharashtra, this column assesses the impact of land acquisition and subse...
- Dhanmanjiri Sathe
- 17 December, 2015
- Articles
Land acquisition Act: Addressing both justice and prosperity
The Modi government’s land acquisition ordinance did away with the consent and social impact assessment requirements for private projects in certain sectors under UPA’s 2013 land Act. In this article...
- Maitreesh Ghatak Parikshit Ghosh
- 29 July, 2015
- Perspectives
Property rights, household conflict and suicide in India
Suicide has become the second leading cause of death among young Indians. This column finds that improved inheritance rights for women are associated with an increase in the incidence of suicide amon...
- Siwan Anderson Garance Genicot
- 09 July, 2015
- Articles
Land acquisition, industrialisation, and displaced households
Does industrialisation on acquired land benefit those displaced? Evaluating the long-term livelihood effects of the first Special Economic Zone in the state of West Bengal, this column finds that the...
- Saumik Paul Vengadeshvaran J. Sarma
- 01 July, 2015
- Articles
Land acquisition debate: The price is not right
The central government’s move to amend the 2013 land acquisition Act has come under criticism for being ‘anti-farmer’. In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak and Parikshit Ghosh argue that while the amend...
- Maitreesh Ghatak Parikshit Ghosh
- 31 March, 2015
- Perspectives
Land Shackled - II
Rising land scarcity and land market distortions are increasingly becoming a binding constraint on development in India. In their previous article, Kapur, Somanathan and Subramanian diagnosed India’s...
- Devesh Kapur T.V. Somanathan Arvind Subramanian
- 22 October, 2014
- Perspectives
Land Shackled
Rising land scarcity and land market distortions are increasingly becoming a binding constraint on development in India. In the first of a two-part series, Kapur, Somanathan and Subramanian diagnose ...
- Devesh Kapur T.V. Somanathan Arvind Subramanian
- 17 October, 2014
- Perspectives
The new land law: Are the states up to the challenge?
In the third part of the land law debate, Ram Singh asserts that the Act is biased against projects of state governments, and emphasises the need for states to undertake long overdue land reforms. He...
- Ram Singh
- 25 October, 2013
- Perspectives