Tag Search: “land”
The panchayat asset register: An instrument to conserve India’s commons
With common lands making up nearly a quarter of Indian territory, the State has taken steps to protect them from encroachment. The Indian Constitution grants panchayats custodial rights to protect vil...
- Pooja Chandran Subrata Singh
- 07 December, 2022
- Perspectives
The long-run effects of agricultural productivity gains: Evidence from irrigation canals in India
Evidence from canals in India shows that labour mobility is a key channel to agricultural growth. This article shows that villages with access to canal water have persistently higher agricultural yiel...
- Samuel Asher Alison Campion Douglas Gollin Paul Novosad
- 21 October, 2022
- Articles
Urban India's housing supply response to migration-induced demand
Has urban housing supply in India kept pace with rising demand? Using Census data between 2001 and 2011, this article studies the market supply of housing in response to migration-induced housing dema...
- Arnab Datta Sahil Gandhi Richard Green
- 24 June, 2022
- Articles
Role of history in shaping India’s economic development
As India is now completing 75 years of Independence, two big questions loom over the conversation around India’s economic development: How successful was the Indian economy before and during colonial ...
- Bishnupriya Gupta Lakshmi Iyer
- 24 February, 2022
- Podcasts
How colonial is Indian law?
Critiques of the colonial rule in India and its legacy have been extended to law – with many allusions to the need to shake off the yoke of the colonial legacy. In this post, Roy and Swamy unpack the ...
- Tirthankar Roy Anand Swamy
- 18 February, 2022
- Perspectives
Inter-gender and intra-gender gaps in land ownership in India
While women’s landownership is recognised as a key indicator of their economic empowerment, there are no detailed estimates of how many and which women own land in India. Analysing longitudinal data f...
- Bina Agarwal Pervesh Anthwal Malvika Mahesh
- 24 November, 2021
- Articles
Sustainable livelihoods and resilience through community forest management
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights) Act, 2006 adopts a rights-based approach to forest conservation and seeks to place local communities at the centre of...
- Santosh Gedam
- 06 August, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Women’s legal rights and gender gaps in property ownership
Amendments to succession laws have sought to address gender-based discrimination in property inheritance in India. Analysing Demographic and Health Survey data, collected in about 40 countries since 2...
- Isis Gaddis Rahul Lahoti Hema Swaminathan
- 23 April, 2021
- Articles
Declining common lands in India: Role of economic inequality
The area under common pool land resources (CPLRs), which are crucial to rural livelihoods in India, has recorded a steady decline over the last three decades. Common land is diverted either as private...
- Deepak Malghan Arnab Mukherji Sneha Thapliyal
- 14 January, 2021
- Articles
Land disputes in ‘Santhal Parganas’: Issues and solutions
Four of the six districts in Santhal Parganas division of Jharkhand have been classified as ‘aspirational districts’ by NITI Aayog. In this note, Karn Satyarthi describes the unique manner in which la...
- Karn Satyarthi
- 15 December, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Implementing Forest Rights Act: Story of two villages in Maharashtra
The Forest Rights Act, 2006 was a landmark forest legislation in India, which recognised individual and community rights over forest resources. However, as of November 2018, only 44.83% of titles have...
- Sayak Sinha
- 15 July, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Infrastructure development: Current bottlenecks and way forward
Infrastructure development remains a key constraint in India’s economic development. Given the budgetary constraints of the government, private financing for infrastructure provisioning through public...
- Meenakshi Sinha
- 19 February, 2020
- Perspectives