Tag Search: “Land”
Impact of community mobilisation on land rights governance
Homestead land rights, that is, the security a household enjoys over the plot of land on which its dwelling is built, shape livelihoods and living standards for poor and marginalised populations in ru...
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Sanjay Kumar
Andre Nickow
05 October, 2017
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Land acquisition and corporate investment: Legacy of historical land ceiling legislations?
Firms in India often find it difficult to purchase land, resulting in projects being delayed, relocated, or cancelled. Analysing firm- and state-level data, this column explores the impact of post-in...
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Sarmistha Pal
Tiago Pinheiro
Zoya Saher
23 March, 2017
- Perspectives
Land acquisition: Need for a shift in discourse?
Empirical evidence increasingly shows that farmers are willing to have their land acquired if the price-compensation package is acceptable. Given this trend, Dhanmanjiri Sathe argues that the discours...
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Dhanmanjiri Sathe
25 January, 2017
- Perspectives
Estimating economic value to the State from land title regularisation: Evidence from India
Nearly one in every six urban Indian residents lives in a slum that is created on encroached land. More than half of this land belongs to the government which often, for a variety of political, social...
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Venkatesh Panchapagesan
Madalasa Venkataraman
31 December, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Land acquisition law: The buck stops with the states
Some believe that by encouraging states to enact their own versions of the land acquisition law, the central government is diluting the law. In this article, Dhanmanjiri Sathe, Professor of Economics ...
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Dhanmanjiri Sathe
07 December, 2016
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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...
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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...
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Gilles Duranton
Ejaz Ghani
Arti Grover Goswami
William Kerr
20 July, 2016
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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...
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Gurbachan Singh
29 February, 2016
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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...
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Anand Swamy
10 February, 2016
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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...
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Dhanmanjiri Sathe
17 December, 2015
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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...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
Parikshit Ghosh
29 July, 2015
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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...
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Siwan Anderson
Garance Genicot
09 July, 2015
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