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Governing India's land

Abstract:

Under conditions of market-orientation and globalization, land is being transferred from agriculture and common property uses, to corporate farming, private industry, and the service sector. How are intra- and international land transactions governed? Using the case of India, this paper emphasizes the sub-national scale. Fieldwork in Gujarat, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu reveals States to be competing with each other to attract private investment. Yet, given institutional and political variation, their land provision ranges from attempted market-friendly policy change, to narrower state–business alliances. It is time for scholarship and resultant policy recommendations to look beyond the national and global scales.

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.03.015

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
International Development
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
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Journal:
World developmnent More from this journal
Volume:
60
Issue:
1
Pages:
43-56
Publication date:
2014-01-01
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Accepted Manuscript
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ISSN:
0305-750X


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English
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2014-10-10

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