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More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11234 Swapnendu Banerjee • Vivekananda Mukherjee Sushil Kumar Haldar Editors Understanding Development An Indian Perspective on Legal and Economic Policy 1 3 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 ISBN 978-81-322-2454-9 ISBN 978-81-322-2455-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2455-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015940321 Springer New Delhi Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer India 2016 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd. is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) 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 v 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 vii viii Contents 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 ix x Contributors 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