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Understanding Development
An Indian Perspective on Legal
and Economic Policy
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Editors
Swapnendu Banerjee Sushil Kumar Haldar
Department of Economics Department of Economics
Jadavpur University Jadavpur University
Kolkata Kolkata
India India
Vivekananda Mukherjee
Department of Economics
Jadavpur University
Kolkata
India
ISSN 2198-0012 ISSN 2198-0020 (electronic)
India Studies in Business and Economics
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Foreword
The present volume is a collection of articles on various facets of economic devel-
opment, written by a select group of researchers who have specialised in respective
fields. The planning of this volume was mooted in a meeting of advisory committee
of the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the Department of Economics, Jadav-
pur University. Since CAS has sponsored a variety of workshops and seminars and
hosted visiting fellows, the external experts of the CAS, Professor Dilip Nachane
(former director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research) and Professor
Ramprasad Sengupta (formerly of Jawaharlal Nehru University) suggested that we
collate important papers in two volumes to be contributed by the visitors as well as
Jadavpur’s own faculty. The reason for planning two volumes is to accommodate
the five thrust areas we have in the CAS, namely, International Trade, Finance,
Resource and Environment, West Bengal Economy and Public Policy related to
Social Sector. The idea is to produce a monograph which will help the readers with
some survey papers along with some state-of-the-art research in relevant fields. The
present volume Understanding Development: An Indian Perspective on Legal and
Economic Policy edited by my three young but very energetic colleagues, Swap-
nendu Banerjee, Vivekananda Mukherjee and Sushil Halder, has a fine balance of
topics covered under the last three thrust areas mentioned above. In addition, the
chapters will satisfy the needs of various strata of readers—for example the survey
on sharecropping would greatly help the graduate level students and researchers,
while the chapters in the section of social sector will be of immense help for the
policy planners as well as researchers. Similarly, the section on law and econom-
ics would acquaint the business practitioners along with government policymakers
with some recent developments in this field. I must thank the efforts of the editors
who spared their valuable time to make the volume useful and interesting. I have
faith that the purpose of publishing this volume will be totally fulfilled and we will
have increasing returns to knowledge after reading the volume.
Professor and Coordinator Ajitava Raychaudhuri
Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Economics
Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032
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Contents
1 Editors’ Note ............................................................................................... 1
Swapnendu Banerjee, Vivekananda Mukherjee
and Sushil Kumar Haldar
Part I Law and Contracts
2 Does an Employment Protection Law Matter? A Panel Data
Analysis of Selected OECD Countries, 1985–2012 ................................. 9
Prabirjit Sarkar
3 Network of Legal Citations: An Analysis of Some Supreme
Court Decisions on Land Acquisition in India ........................................ 25
Rahul Chakraborty, Simonti Chakraborty and Rajendra P. Kundu
4 Surrogacy Contracting and Intermediation ............................................ 37
Amrita Pramanick and Swapnendu Banerjee
5 Sharecropping in Theory and Practice:A Selective Review ................... 53
Debapriya Sen
Part II Trade and Foreign Aid
6 T rade in Intermediate Goods, Endogenous Growth and
Intellectual Property Rights ...................................................................... 75
Bidisha Chakraborty
7 Multi-Market Firms and Export Quota: Effects of
Withdrawal of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement ......................................... 99
Saibal Kar and Mausumi Kar
8 Does Foreign Aid Corrupt? A Theoretical Note ...................................... 115
Sugata Marjit and Vivekananda Mukherjee
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Part III Issues in Public Economics
9 Public–Private Partnerships and Governance ........................................ 127
Indrani Roy Chowdhury and Prabal Roy Chowdhury
10 Principles of Allocating Development Grant at the
Sub-National Level in India: A Suggested Methodology ........................ 141
Sushil Kumar Haldar and Ajitava Raychaudhuri
11 F iscal Rule and Social Sector Spending: A Study
of North-East India .................................................................................... 155
Vikas Dixit
Part IV Social Sector and Poverty Alleviation
12 A n Analysis on the Impact of Employment Generation
Policies on Rural Women in West Bengal, India ..................................... 175
Tanmoyee Banerjee (Chaterjee)
13 P overty in West Bengal: A Review of Recent Performance
and Programmes ........................................................................................ 191
Siddhartha Mitra
14 T he Impact of MGNREGS on Rural Households: Evidence
from a Quasi-experiment ........................................................................... 207
Amit Kundu and Sanjib Talukdar
15 D oes Parental Education Have Any Role to Play on Female
Child Disadvantage? .................................................................................. 219
Soma Mandal and Arpita Ghose
16 S chool Attendance and Employment of Youth in India:
Convergence Across Caste and Religious Groups? ................................ 237
Tushar K. Nandi
17 Adverse Effect of Biomass Fuel Use on Pregnancy Outcome
in Rural India ............................................................................................. 265
Poulomi Roy, Jayanti Ghosh and Rahuldeb Sarkar
Contributors
Swapnendu Banerjee Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
India
Tanmoyee Banerjee (Chaterjee) Department of Economics, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India
Bidisha Chakraborty Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
India
Rahul Chakraborty Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, India
Simonti Chakraborty Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Indrani Roy Chowdhury Department of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New
Delhi, India
Prabal Roy Chowdhury Economic and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute,
Delhi Centre, New Delhi, India
Vikas Dixit Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Arpita Ghose Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Jayanti Ghosh Sushmita Foundation, Kolkata, India
Sushil Kumar Haldar Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
India
Mausumi Kar Women’s Christian College, Kolkata, India
Saibal Kar Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India
Amit Kundu Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
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Rajendra P. Kundu Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, India
Soma Mandal Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Sugata Marjit Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India
Siddhartha Mitra Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Vivekananda Mukherjee Department of Economics, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India
Tushar K. Nandi CTRPFP, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSS), Kolkata,
India
Amrita Pramanick Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
India
Ajitava Raychaudhuri Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
India
Poulomi Roy Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Prabirjit Sarkar Economics Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Rahuldeb Sarkar Sushmita Foundation, Kolkata, India
Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham, Kent, UK
Debapriya Sen Department of Economics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Sanjib Talukdar Sree Chaitanya Mahavidyalaya, Habra, India
Description: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 coun
