New and enduring themes in development economics (World Scientific, 2009)
"Platinum jubilee series.". - "This volume is a selection of papers by participants at the ISI Platinum Jubilee conference on Comparative Development held at the ISI, Delhi in December 2007"--P. vii
Includes bibliographical references
International differences in the determinants of life satisfaction / John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang and Anthony Harris -- Unequal chances : the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage under marital sorting / T. Lakshmanasamy -- Addressing equity issues in watershed development projects in Bhil Adivasi areas of western Madhya Pradesh / Rahul Banerjee -- A theory of the corrupt Keynesian / Toke Aidt and Jayasri Dutta -- On effecting institutional change / Sumon Majumdar and Sharun Mukand -- On the political economy of general strikes / Abhirup Sarkar -- Public outrage and criminal justice : lessons from the Jessica Lal case / Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi -- Lobbying for trade regime and tariff settings / Katsuzo Yamamoto -- Labor retrenchment laws and their effect on wages and employment : a theoretical investigation / Kaushik Basu, Gary S. Fields and Shub Debgupta -- Work migration and investment in origin communities / Ghazala Mansuri -- Labour market reform and poverty : the role of informal sector / Sugata Marjit, Saibal Kar and Dibyendu Sundar Maiti -- Measuring harm due to child work and child labour : patterns and determinants for India / Diganta Mukherjee and Saswati Das -- Development strategy : the state and agriculture since independence / T.N. Srinavasan -- Land-use changes and agricultural growth in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, 1901-2004 / Takashi Kurosaki -- The natural interest rate in emerging markets / Ashima Goyal -- Intergovernmental transfer rules, state fiscal policy and performance in India / Poulomi Roy and Ajitava Raychaudhuri -- Tax evasion and administrative costs / Rohit Prasad -- Inequality, public investment and deficits in India / Errol D'Souza -- Climate change and the Kyoto protocol / Parkash Chander -- Recent trends in microfinance institutions : some theoretical implications / Suman Ghosh and Eric Van Tassel
This book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the ISI (Indian Statistical Institute) Platinum Jubilee Conference on Comparative Development held at the ISI, Delhi, India. The papers cover new and well-established topics in development economics. Some of these include political economy, role of public outrage in delivering justice and the political economy of general strikes, economics of happiness, economics of labour, agricultural economics, macroeconomics and public finance. These topics are analyzed from the perspective of developing countries. The book will be of interest to both researchers and graduate students in development economics