Public agencies often rely on their power of compulsory acquisition of privately owned land when it comes to procuring land for large infrastructure projects. Over the years, the process of compulsory acquisition has evolved to compensate the affected landowners better, to the extent of paying...

This paper explores whether trade can explain a part of the sharp decline in the labor share of Indian formal industries from around 30% in 1980 to less than 10% in 2014. Decline in strikes and lockouts, reduced labor time lost from disputes per factory and increased use of contract workers in...

This paper analyzes the impact of tariff liberalization and foreign direct investment on pollution from a plant-level perspective. It considers how globalization impacts plant-level investment in pollution abatement expenditure. Popular hypotheses on trade and pollution cite the pollution haven...