Understanding Development

Table of contents (17 chapters)

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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   Chapter

   Pages 1-6

   Editors’ Note

   Swapnendu Banerjee, Vivekananda Mukherjee, Sushil Kumar Haldar
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3. Law and Contracts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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      Pages 9-23

      Does an Employment Protection Law Matter? A Panel Data Analysis of Selected OECD Countries, 1985–2012

      Prabirjit Sarkar
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      Chapter

      Pages 25-35

      Network of Legal Citations: An Analysis of Some Supreme Court Decisions on Land Acquisition in India

      Rahul Chakraborty, Simonti Chakraborty, Rajendra P. Kundu
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      Chapter

      Pages 37-51

      Surrogacy Contracting and Intermediation

      Amrita Pramanick, Swapnendu Banerjee
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      Chapter

      Pages 53-72

      Sharecropping in Theory and Practice: A Selective Review

      Debapriya Sen
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4. Trade and Foreign Aid

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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      Pages 75-97

      Trade in Intermediate Goods, Endogenous Growth and Intellectual Property Rights

      Bidisha Chakraborty
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      Chapter

      Pages 99-113

      Multi-Market Firms and Export Quota: Effects of Withdrawal of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement

      Saibal Kar, Mausumi Kar
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      Pages 115-123

      Does Foreign Aid Corrupt? A Theoretical Note

      Sugata Marjit, Vivekananda Mukherjee
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5. Issues in Public Economics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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      Pages 127-140

      Public–Private Partnerships and Governance

      Indrani Roy Chowdhury, Prabal Roy Chowdhury
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      Pages 141-154

      Principles of Allocating Development Grant at the Sub-National Level in India: A Suggested Methodology

      Sushil Kumar Haldar, Ajitava Raychaudhuri
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      Pages 155-171

      Fiscal Rule and Social Sector Spending: A Study of North-East India

      Vikas Dixit
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6. Social Sector and Poverty Alleviation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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      Pages 175-190

      An Analysis on the Impact of Employment Generation Policies on Rural Women in West Bengal, India

      Tanmoyee Banerjee (Chaterjee)
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      Chapter

      Pages 191-205

      Poverty in West Bengal: A Review of Recent Performance and Programmes

      Siddhartha Mitra
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      Pages 207-218

      The Impact of MGNREGS on Rural Households: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment

      Amit Kundu, Sanjib Talukdar
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      Pages 219-235

      Does Parental Education Have Any Role to Play on Female Child Disadvantage?

      Soma Mandal, Arpita Ghose
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      Pages 237-264

      School Attendance and Employment of Youth in India: Convergence Across Caste and Religious Groups?

      Tushar K. Nandi
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      Pages 265-272

      Adverse Effect of Biomass Fuel Use on Pregnancy Outcome in Rural India

      Poulomi Roy, Jayanti Ghosh, Rahuldeb Sarkar
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