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Corruption and development: a review of issues

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P Bardhan - Journal of Economic Literature, 1997 - JSTOR
Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XXXV (September 1997), pp. 1320-1346 ... PRANAB BARDHAN
University of California at Berkeley ... I afm grateful for useful comments on earlier drafts from
Jean-Claude Berthelemy, Andrew Goudie, Mancur Olson, Dani Rodrik, Susan Rose- ...
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The Political Economy of Development in India: Expanded edition with an epilogue on the political economy of reform in India

P Bardhan - OUP Catalogue, 1999 - ideas.repec.org
In this readily accessible book Bardhan examines the political and social constraints on
Indian development. In the newly added epilogue Bardhan comments on the process of
liberalization in the 1990's and examines the feasibility of the exercise in the light of ...
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Decentralization of governance and development

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P Bardhan - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002 - JSTOR
All around the world in matters of governance, decentralization is the rage. Even apart from
the widely debated issues of subsidiarity and devolution in the European Union and states'
rights in the United States, decentraliza? tion has been at the center stage of policy ...
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[BOOK] Land, labor, and rural poverty: Essays in development economics

PK Bardhan - 1984 - books.google.com
Page 1. Land, Labor, and Rural Poverty Essays in Development Economics Pranab K. Bardhan
Page 2. Page 3. \ A Page 4. Page 5. Land, Labor, and Rural Poverty Essays in Development
Economics Pranab K. Bardhan COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS New York Page 6. ...
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[BOOK] Development microeconomics

P Bardhan… - 1999 - books.google.com
Traditional development economics has recently been revolutionized by the application of
new economic tools and concepts. Development Microeconomics is the first in a series of
books which will look at the entire spectrum of development economics issues, combining ...
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Capture and governance at local and national levels

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P Bardhan… - The American Economic Review, 2000 - JSTOR
The literature on public choice and political economy is characterized by numerous
theoretical analyses of capture of the democratic process by special-interest groups. It is
surprising, therefore, that this literature rarely addresses the question of relative capture at ...
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[BOOK] The economic theory of agrarian institutions

P Bardhan - 1991 - econpapers.repec.org
This volume breaks new ground in the economic theory of institutions. The contributors show
how some of the tools of advanced economic theory can usefully contribute to an
understanding of how institutions operate. They show how sound theoretical analysis can ...
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Interlocking factor markets and agrarian development: A review of issues

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PK Bardhan - Oxford Economic Papers, 1980 - JSTOR
Page 1. INTERLOCKING FACTOR MARKETS AND AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT:
A REVIEW OF ISSUES' By PRANAB K. BARDHAN IT is being increasingly
appreciated in the literature on agrarian develop- ment that many of ...
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Size, productivity, and returns to scale: An analysis of farm-level data in Indian agriculture

PK Bardhan - The Journal of Political Economy, 1973 - JSTOR
Page 1. Size, Productivity, and Returns to Scale: An Analysis of Farm-Level Data
in Indian Agriculture Pranab K. Bardhan Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi The
paper uses individual farm-level data for nearly 1,000 Indian ...
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On life and death questions

PK Bardhan - Economic and Political Weekly, 1974 - JSTOR
Page 1. On Life and Death Questions Pranab K Bardhan Most of the recent discussion
on the assessment of poverty and levels of living in India is based on evidence
provided by household consumption data. It is usually made ...
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Cropsharing tenancy in agriculture: a theoretical and empirical analysis

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PK Bardhan… - The American Economic Review, 1971 - JSTOR
Page 1. Cropsharing Tenancy in Agriculture: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
By PK BARDHAN AND TN SRINIVASAN* Cropsharing tenancy is one of the ear-
liest forms of production organization in agriculture. It is still ...
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Analytics of the institutions of informal cooperation in rural development

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P Bardhan - World Development, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract Local community-level water management is crucial for rural development in the
poorest parts of the world, in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Local cooperative
institutions have been successful in water management in some cases, but there are ...
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Irrigation and cooperation: An empirical analysis of 48 irrigation communities in South India

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P Bardhan - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2000 - JSTOR
A controlled supply of water is crucial for much of the world's agriculture. This is particularly
the case in many of the semiarid and unevenrainfall areas of South Asia. While there is a
considerable body of work on the management of large canal systems and the structure ...
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Interlinkage of land, labour and credit relations: An analysis of village survey data in East India

P Bardhan… - Economic and Political Weekly, 1978 - JSTOR
This paper presents the results of an intensive and yet fairly large-scale survey, of nearly
275 randomly chosen villages in West Bengal, Bihar and some of the eastern districts of
Uttar Pradesh, made in 1975-76, with the primary focus on the terms and conditions of ...
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[CITATION] Optimum foreign borrowing

PK Bardhan - Essays in the Theory of Optimal Growth, 1967
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Wealth inequality, wealth constraints and economic performance

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P Bardhan, S Bowles… - Handbook of Income Distribution, 2000 - Elsevier
Abstract Where such behaviors as risk-taking and hard work are not subject to complete
contracts, some distributions of assets (for instance the widespread use of tenancy) may
preclude efficient contractual arrangements. In particular, the distribution of wealth may ...
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On the incidence of poverty in rural India of the sixties

PK Bardhan - Economic and Political Weekly, 1973 - JSTOR
Page 1. On the Incidence of Poverty in. Rural India of the Sixties Pranab K Bardhan
This paper tries to assess the changes over the sixties in the percentage of rural
people below a well- defined mzinlinumin level of living, with ...
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The new institutional economics and development theory: A brief critical assessment

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P Bardhan - World Development, 1989 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper we discuss strengths and weaknesses of transaction-cost and
imperfect-information approaches to the economic theory of institutions, particularly with
reference to problems relevant to economic development.
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Credit markets and patterns of international trade

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K Kletzer… - Journal of Development Economics, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract Even with identical technology or endowments between countries comparative
costs may differ in a world of credit market imperfection. We have explored two kinds of such
imperfection, one involving moral hazard considerations in the international credit market ...
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[BOOK] Scarcity, conflicts, and cooperation: essays in the political and institutional economics of development

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PK Bardhan - 2005 - books.google.com
... Page 3. Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation Page 4. Page 5. Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation
Essays in the Political and Institutional Economics of Development Pranab Bardhan The MIT
Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England . s One 646H-OY4-CER3 Page 6. ...
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[PDF] Relative capture of local and central governments: An essay in the political economy of decentralization

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P Bardhan… - 2002 - escholarship.org
Abstract: A common presumption is that decentralization is prone to a potential pitfall owing
to the greater vulnerability of local governments to capture by local elites. We investigate the
determinants of relative capture of local and national governments theoretically, in the ...
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Market socialism: a case for rejuvenation

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P Bardhan… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1992 - JSTOR
It is unfortunate that the momentous events in socialist countries since 1989 have persuaded
many that socialism as a political, economic, and intellectual movement is now to be
dismissed as bankrupt and practically moribund. The economic experiment that has ...
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[PDF] Alternative approaches to the theory of institutions in economic development

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P Bardhan - 1987 - escholarship.org
Abstract In this paper we discuss three alternative approaches to an endogenous economic
theory of institutions as represented by the Marxist, transaction—cost and imperfect-
information schools. We show that they share some similarities both in their strengths and ...
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Decentralizing antipoverty program delivery in developing countries

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P Bardhan… - Journal of Public Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
We study the effects on accountability in government service delivery of decentralizing
administration of an antipoverty program. While governments at both central and local levels
are vulnerable to antipoor policy biases owing to political capture, centralized delivery ...
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[CITATION] Economic growth, development, and foreign trade: A study in pure theory

PK Bardhan… - 1970 - getcited.org
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'Green Revolution'and Agricultural Labourers

P Bardhan - Economic and Political Weekly, 1970 - JSTOR
What hard evidence have we, at the end of the decade of the sixties, about agricultural
labourers' share in the general agrarian prosperity? There exist fragmentary bits of
information from different sources which have varying reliability. They are certainly not ...
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[CITATION] Poverty and income distribution in India

TN Srinivasan… - 1974 - Statistical Publ. Soc.
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Decentralisation and Accountability in Infrastructure Delivery in Developing Countries*

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P Bardhan… - The Economic Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This article extends the analysis in Part 2 of our earlier working paper titled 'Expenditure
Decentralisation and Delivery of Public Services in Developing Countries'. For financial
support we are grateful to the MacArthur Foundation. Mookherjee's research was ...
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[CITATION] On the minimum level of living and the rural poor

PK Bardhan - Indian Economic Review, 1970
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[PDF] Market socialism

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P Bardhan… - 1991 - escholarship.org
1. Introduction It is unfortunate that the momentous events in socialist countries since 1989
have persuaded many among us that socialism as a political, economic and intellectual
movement is to be now dismissed as bankrupt and practically moribund. The" socialist" ...
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[PDF] Unequal irrigators: heterogeneity and commons management in large-scale multivariate research

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P Bardhan… - The drama of the commons, 2002 - emlab.berkeley.edu
[Abstract] Despite impressive advances in our understanding of the factors conducive to
successful management on the commons, there remains considerable confusion about the
effect of heterogeneity among the resource users. Perspectives on this issue fall into two ...
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Expenditure decentralization and the delivery of public services in developing countries

P Bardhan… - Boston University-Institute for …, 1998 - ideas.repec.org
This two-part paper provides a theoretical framework for appraising trade-offs between
alternative methods of delegating authority over the delivery of public services, on the
targeting and cost-effectiveness of public spending programs in developing countries. ...
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Symposium on management of local commons

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P Bardhan - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993 - JSTOR
In the public image of industrially advanced countries, the commons problem relates to
global warming, acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and the like. In the developing
countries, the daily livelihood of the poor depends more substantially and directly on the ...
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[PDF] Corruption and decentralization of infrastructure delivery in developing countries

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P Bardhan… - Economic Journal, 2000 - rrojasdatabank.info
Abstract Corruption and targeting failures in the delivery of public services in developing
countries has frequently been argued to result from absence of controls on the behavior of
central bureaucrats delegated authority over service delivery. This has motivated recent ...
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Wages and unemployment in a poor agrarian economy: A theoretical and empirical analysis

PK Bardhan - The Journal of Political Economy, 1979 - JSTOR
Page 1. Wages and Unemployment in a Poor Agrarian Economy: A Theoretical and Empirical
Analysis Pranab K. Bardhan University of California, Berkeley In much of the theoretical literature
on development the standard assumption is that of a constant wage in agriculture. ...
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[BOOK] The role of governance in economic development: a political economy approach

PK Bardhan - 1997 - books.google.com
Page 1. DEVELOPMENT CENTRE STUDIES CONOMIC DEVELOPM olitical EC PRANAB
BARDHAN <i)Q(§[D fgrMENTTc^ oY5fp)r3 ^ Page 2. Page 3. DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
STUDIES THE ROLE OF GOVERNANCE IN ECONOMIC ...
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[CITATION] India's Democracy: An Analysis of Changing State-Society Relations

A Kohli, PK Bardhan… - 1990 - Princeton University Press
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Symposium on the state and economic development

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P Bardhan - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990 - JSTOR
T he role of the state in economic development is one of the oldest topics in economics, yet
controversies rage with similar passion and camps are divided on lines today broadly similar
to the early writings. However, the experience of nearly four decades of state activism in ...
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INEQUALITY AND CONSERVATION ON THE LOCAL COMMONS: A THEORETICAL EXERCISE*

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J Dayton‐Johnson… - The Economic Journal, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
To analyse the effect of asset inequality on co-operation within a group, we consider a two-
player nonco-operative model of conservation of a common-pool resource. Overexploitation
by one user affects another's payoff by reducing the next-period catch. We give necessary ...
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[PDF] Alternative approaches to development economics

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P Bardhan - Handbook of development economics, 1988 - deistaf.unifi.it
Development economics as a separate branch of economics originated in a widespread
perception of the limited usefulness of orthodox economics, and even though its pristine
separatism has mellowed over the years it retains to this day its contrary, unruly, if ...
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Labor supply functions in a poor agrarian economy

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PK Bardhan - The American Economic Review, 1979 - JSTOR
Page 1. Labor Supply Functions in a Poor Agrarian Economy By PRANAB K.
BARDHAN* The analytical literature on employment, unemployment, and wage
determination in poor agrarian economies is large, albeit inconclusive. ...
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Institutions matter, but which ones?

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P Bardhan - Economics of Transition, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this paper is to go beyond the narrow focus of the current institutional
economics literature in development on the institutions protecting individual property rights,
and to look at the economic effects of some other aspects of institutional quality on the ...
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Symposium on democracy and development

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P Bardhan - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993 - JSTOR
A cademic fashions often follow the public political mood. In a period when euphoric public
commentators have announced" the end of history" in the triumph of capitalist democracy,
one sees an increasing number of scholarly studies attempting to show, often on the basis ...
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Economics of Development and the Development of Economics

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P Bardhan - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993 - JSTOR
The priestly caste (the Math-Econ), for example, is a higher" field" than either Micro or Macro,
while the Develops just as definitely rank lower.... The low rank of the Develops is due to the
fact that this caste, in recent times, has not strictly enforced the taboos against association ...
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Method in the madness? A political-economy analysis of the ethnic conflicts in less developed countries

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P Bardhan - World Development, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper is an attempt, from a political economist's point of view, to look for some clear
patterns in the horrendous complexities of the ethnic and sectarian conflicts that are raging
in less developed countries. We emphasize the importance of some institutional failures ( ...
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[CITATION] Research on poverty and development twenty years after redistribution with growth

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REPIDISCA, seleciona. para imprimir. Id: 185714. Autor: Bardhan, Pranab K. ...
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Pro-poor targeting and accountability of local governments in West Bengal

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P Bardhan… - Journal of Development Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
A commonly alleged pitfall of decentralization is that poverty, socio-economic inequality and
lack of political competition allow local elites to capture local governments. This hypothesis
is empirically examined using a longitudinal sample of 89 West Bengal villages ...
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[PDF] The nature of institutional impediments to economic development

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P Bardhan - 1996 - escholarship.org
In this paper I shall focus, to a large extent, on (a) institutional impediments as outcomes of
distributive conflicts and (b) the collective action problems they exacerbate and (c), in view of
the critical need for coordination, on a more complex and nuanced role of the state, which ...
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[BOOK] The contested commons: conversations between economists and anthropologists

PK Bardhan… - 2008 - library.wur.nl
Record number, 1887040. Title, The contested commons : conversations between economists
and anthropologists show extra info. ed. by Pranab Bardhan & Isha Ray. Author(s ...
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Efficiency, equity and poverty alleviation: policy issues in less developed countries

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P Bardhan - The Economic Journal, 1996 - JSTOR
In the poor countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (the areas where mass poverty
in the world is geographically concentrated) poverty by any reasonable measurement is so
pervasive that policies of poverty alleviation encompass practically the whole range of ...
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[BOOK] Rural poverty in South Asia.

TN Srinivasan, PK Bardhan - 1988 - cabdirect.org
The book contains 18 essays assessing the various policies proposed and pursued to alleviate
poverty in rural South Asia, specifically Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. After
quantifying the extent of rural poverty, the book explains its variations over time and area, and ...
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Labor-tying in a poor agrarian economy: A theoretical and empirical analysis

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PK Bardhan - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1983 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. LABOR-TYING IN A POOR AGRARIAN ECONOMY: A THEORETICAL AND
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS* PRANAB K. BARDHAN In this paper we show how tied labor,
contrary to its common characterization as a feudal relic ...
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Decentralization, corruption and government accountability

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P Bardhan… - International handbook on the …, 2006 - books.google.com
The impact of government decentralization on economic performance and growth is a hotly
contested issue. Waves of decentralization occurred in many developing countries over the
past few decades, following the demise of a development paradigm in which centralized ...
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Little girls and death in India

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P Bardhan - Economic and Political Weekly, 1982 - JSTOR
IT has been well-known for quite some time that in India, the country of allpowerful
goddesses and political godmothers, the female has a much lower chance of survival than
the male. It is somewhat less well-known'that there are remarkable regional contrasts ...
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[PDF] Decentralised development

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P Bardhan - Indian Economic Review, 1996 - bdresearch.org
ABSTRACT In this paper we start with an evaluation of the various advantages and
disadvantages of decentralisation (in the sense of devolution of power to local agencies and
communities), and also of the conditions that predispose towards success or failure in ...
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LABOUR CONTRACTS IN AGRICULTURE: RESULTS OF A SURVEY IN WEST BENGAL 1979*

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P Bardhan… - Oxford Bulletin of Economics and …, 1981 - Wiley Online Library
Bardhan, P. and Rudra, A.(1981), TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LABOUR CONTRACTS IN
AGRICULTURE: RESULTS OF A SURVEY IN WEST BENGAL 1979. Oxford Bulletin of
Economics and Statistics, 43: 89–111. doi: 10.1111/j. 1468-0084.1981. mp43001006. x
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[HTML] Distributive conflicts, collective action, and institutional economics

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P Bardhan - Frontiers of Development Economics-The Future in …, 2001 - books.google.com
IN RECENT YEARS, as the pervasive influence of Walrasian models in economics has
waned, it has become generally recognized that" institutions matter" and that the associated
incentive structures substantially influence economic performance. Two recent strands of ...
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Terms and conditions of sharecropping contracts: an analysis of village survey data in India

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P Bardhan… - The Journal of Development Studies, 1980 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reports data on terms and conditions of share‐cropping contracts collected in
1975–6 from 334 randomly chosen villages in four states in India. Among other things, it
suggests some evidence of higher crop share for the tenant positively associated with ...
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Democracy and Development: A Complex Relationship.”

P Bardhan - 2001 - books.google.com
Most of us, ardent democrats all, would like to believe that democracy is not merely good in
itself, it is also valuable in enhancing the process of development. Of course, if we take a
suitably broad concept of development to incorporate general well-being of the population ...
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[BOOK] Decentralization and local governance in developing countries: a comparative perspective

PK Bardhan… - 2006 - econpapers.repec.org
By Pranab K. Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee; Abstract: Over the past three decades the developing
world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to.
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[CITATION] 12.. A Note on Interlinked Rural Economic Arrangements

P Bardhan - The economic theory of agrarian institutions, 1991 - ingentaconnect.com
... 12.. A Note on Interlinked Rural Economic Arrangements. Author: Bardhan, Pranab. ... Related
content: In this: publication; By this: publisher; By this author: Bardhan, Pranab. You are signed
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The economist's approach to the problem of corruption

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P Bardhan - World Development, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper will first distinguish between the non-economist's approach to corruption largely
on the basis of public morals and norms and the economist's approach in terms of incentives
and organization. I then discuss why otherwise similar countries may end up with different ...
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[CITATION] Localized technical progress and transfer of technology and economic development

H Lapan… - Journal of Economic Theory, 1973 - ideas.repec.org
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view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of
further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site ...
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[CITATION] Poverty and Income Distribution in India: Editors: TN Srinivasan [and] PK Bardhan

PK Bardhan… - 1974 - Statistical Publishing Society
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The contributions of endogenous growth theory to the analysis of development problems: an assessment

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P Bardhan - Handbook of Development Economics, 1995 - Elsevier
Chapter 46 THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ENDOGENOUS GROWTH THEORY TO THE
ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS: AN ASSESSMENT* PRANAB BARDHAN
University of California, Berkeley Contents 1. Introduction 2984 2. Trade and technological ...
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Equilibrium growth in the international economy

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PK Bardhan - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1965 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. EQUILIBRIUM GROWTH IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY * PK
BARDHAN I. The basic model, 455.— II Analysis of global stability of growth equi-
librium when both countries are incompletely specialized, 459.— III. ...
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[PDF] Decentralizing anti-poverty program delivery in developing countries

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P Bardhan… - Journal of Public Economics, 2000 - bdresearch.org
Abstract We provide a theoretical framework to study the effect of shifting responsibility over
delivery of antipoverty programs to local governments away from centralized bureaucracies.
While governments at both central and local levels are vulnerable to anti-poor policy ...
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[PDF] Poverty and “Trickle-Down” in Rural India: A Quantitative Analysis

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PK Bardhan - Agricultural change and rural poverty: Variations on a …, 1985 - sanhati.com
Page 1. 8 Poverty and "Trickle-Down" in Rural India: A Quantitative Analysis PRANAB
K. BARDHAN For those who find radical institutional changes politically disturbing or
infeasible, the so-called trickle-down hypothesis is comforting. ...
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Agrarian class formation in India

P Bardhan - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1982 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we first discuss, both analytically and empirically, the components of agrarian
class structure in India, particularly in terms of use of hired labour and the significant
distinction of participation or non‐participation in manual work. We then assess the ...
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Labour mobility and the boundaries of the village moral economy

P Bardhan… - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1986 - Taylor & Francis
On the basis of a survey that the authors conducted in 80 villages in West Bengal in 1981–
82, separated into five clusters of neighbouring villages, they find some significant, though
varying, evidence of territorial segmentation of the rural labour market and of limited ...
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[CITATION] The pattern of income distribution in India: a review

PK Bardhan - Poverty and income distribution in India, 1974 - sankhya.isical.ac.in
Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics. 1974, Volume 36, Series C, Pt. 2, 4, pp. 103--138. THE
PATTERN OF INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN INDIA: A REVIEW. By. PRANAB K. BARDHAN, Delhi
School of Economics, University of Delhi. SUMMARY. AMS subject classification. ...
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On optimum subsidy to a learning industry: An aspect of the theory of infant-industry protection

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PK Bardhan - International Economic Review, 1971 - Wiley Online Library
... International Trade, Growth, and Development Pranab Bardhan Copyright © 2003
by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Page 2. 66 Trade and development (1) Q c = Fc(Kc, Lc) =
Lc ⋅ fc(kc), (2) Q m = Qn ⋅ Fm(Km, Lm) = Q n ⋅ Lm fm (km), ...
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Globalization and rural poverty

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P Bardhan - World Development, 2006 - Elsevier
In this paper, we provide an analytical account of the mechanisms through which
globalization, in the sense of increased foreign trade and long-term capital flows, affects the
lives of the rural poor in developing countries (in their capacity as workers, consumers, ...
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Understanding underdevelopment: Challenges for institutional economics from the point of view of poor countries

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PK Bardhan - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics ( …, 2000 - JSTOR
Page 1. Understanding Underdevelopment: Challenges for Institutional Economics
From the Point of View of Poor Countries by Pranab K. Bardhan In this paper we
focus on a few broad analytical themes that have not been ...
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Sex disparity in child survival in rural India.

PK Bardhan - Rural poverty in South Asia., 1988 - cabdirect.org
Regions in India show remarkable contrasts in the chances of survival of female children. The
death rate of females aged 0 to 4 years in some areas substantially exceeds that of the males;
differential mortality is also reflected in the sex ratio of the general rural population. In this ...
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[CITATION] Variations in forms of tenancy in a peasant economy

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PK Bardhan - Journal of Development Economics, 1977 - econpapers.repec.org
By Pranab K. Bardhan; Variations in forms of tenancy in a peasant economy.
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Models of growth with imported inputs

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P Bardhan… - Economica, 1970 - JSTOR
A major part of world trade is in intermediate products and capital goods, while trade theory
is mostly in terms of finished consumer goods. This is now generally recognized: Bhagwati
in his survey article [3] points to this as the central limitation of trade theory. 2 Imports of ...
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Variations in Extent and Forms of Agricultural Tenancy-I: analysis of Indian data across regions and over time

P Bardhan - Economic and Political Weekly, 1976 - JSTOR
This paper brings together data on tenancy and distribution of ownership and operational
holdings, on unemployment and wage rates, on credit market conditions and on various
agronomic conditions. Section II of the paper attempts to relate the regional variations in ...
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On the concept of power in economics

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P Bardhan - Economics & Politics, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we start with the standard definition of power and indicate how orthodox
neoclassical economics fails to handle some of the key issues of power. In Sections II and III
we discuss in the context of recent advances in economic theory some of the battlefields, ...
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Imports, domestic production, and transnational vertical integration: a theoretical note

PK Bardhan - The Journal of Political Economy, 1982 - JSTOR
Page 1. Imports, Domestic Production, and Transnational Vertical Integration: A
Theoretical Note Pranab K. Bardhan University of California, Berkeley Suppose a
developing country has the choice of importing cars (I), or producing ...
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Agricultural development and land tenancy in a peasant economy: A theoretical and empirical analysis

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PK Bardhan - American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1979 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. Agricultural Development and' Land Tenancy in a Peasant Economy: A
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Pranab K. Bardban In this paper we have a
two-season model of agricultural production in a peasant economy ...
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[CITATION] Rational fools and cooperation in a poor hydraulic economy

P Bardhan - Center for International and Development Economics …, 1993 - ideas.repec.org
No abstract is available for this item. ... To our knowledge, this item is not available for
download. To find whether it is available, there are three options: 1. Check below under "Related
research" whether another version of this item is available online. 2. Check on the ...
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Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay

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P Bardhan - Journal of South Asian Development, 2006 - sad.sagepub.com
Abstract Both China and India have made remarkable economic progress in the last quarter
century—China more than India—but both have severe structural and institutional problems
that will hobble them for many years to come. In this article, after a comparative study of ...
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[CITATION] Dominant proprietary classes and India's democracy

P Bardhan - Atul Kohli (edited) India's Democracy: An Analysis of …, 1988
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[CITATION] The political economy of India

P Bardhan - 1984 - New York: Basil Blackwell
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Social justice in the global economy

P Bardhan - Economic and Political Weekly, 2001 - JSTOR
All around in the world today many advocates of social justice are in some state of despair.
Some of them fear that social justice is a lost cause in a global economy. This paper
analyses some of the opportunities and insecurities caused by globalisation and tries to ...
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Types of Labour Attachment in Agriculture: Results of a Survey in West Bengal, 1979

P Bardhan… - Economic and Political Weekly, 1980 - JSTOR
This article aims to focus on different categories of agricultural labour. On the basis of a
survey of 110 villages, it attempts to assess the relative numerical importance of these
categories. By analysing the variations in employer-employee relationships of attachment ...
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[PDF] Political economy of land reform in West Bengal

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P Bardhan… - Journal of Political Economy, 2003 - econ-pol.unisi.it
Abstract We examine determinants of political will of local governments to implement land
reforms in a longitudinal sample of 88 villages in the Indian state of West Bengal. The
evidence shows a inverted-U pattern between land reform and control of local ...
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Poverty alleviation efforts of Panchayats in West Bengal

P Bardhan… - Economic and Political Weekly, 2004 - JSTOR
This paper examines poverty alleviation efforts of West Bengal panchayats, comprising
implementation of land reforms and pro-poor targeting of credit, agricultural minikits,
employment programmes and fiscal grants. The sample includes 89 villages and covers ...
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[BOOK] Awakening giants, feet of clay: assessing the economic rise of China and India

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Page 1. JJJJJJJJJJJJ Page 2. AwAkENING GIANTS, FEET OF CLAY Page 3. Page 4.
AWAKENING GIANTS, FEET OF Clay Assessing the economic Rise of chinAAnd indiA PRANAB
BARDHAN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Page 5. ...
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Trends in Land Relations: A Note

P Bardhan - Economic and Political Weekly, 1970 - JSTOR
Any paper on the Indian agrarian structure must start with a disclaimer. In a country with
such diverse social and economic institutions and widely divergent patterns of change in
different areas it is nearly impossible to generalise. In fact for a student of land institutions ...
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Strategy for economic reform in West Bengal

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A Banerjee, P Bardhan, K Basu… - Economic and Political …, 2002 - JSTOR
During the last two decades West Bengal has led the rest of the country with regard to
agricultural performance and implementation of panchayat institutions. But these
developments have begun to level out. At the same time the state has fallen behind in ...
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[CITATION] On tackling the soft budget constraint in market socialism

PK Bardhan - Market Socialism: The Current Debate, 1993 - Oxford University Press, USA
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[CITATION] Water community: An empirical analysis of cooperation on irrigation in South India

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P Bardhan - Communities and markets in …, 2001 - Oxford: Oxford University Press
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[PDF] Inequality and conservation on the local commons: a theoretical exercise

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J Dayton-Johnson… - 1996 - escholarship.org
Abstract: To analyze the effect of asset inequality on cooperation within a group, we consider
a twoplayer noncooperative model of conservation of a common-pool resource (CPR): a
fishery. We give necessary and sufficient conditions such that conservation is a Nash ...
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Equilibrium growth in a model with economic obsolescence of machines

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P Bardhan - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1969 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Leif Johansen formalized the idea of ex post rigidity of factor proportions in a
"vintage-capital" growth model with technical prog- ress embodied only in new equipment. 1
Edmund Phelps,2 and very recently, Murray Kemp and Pham Chi ThAnh 3 have ...
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[CITATION] Determinants of supply and demand for labor in a poor agrarian economy: an analysis of household survey data from rural West Bengal

PK Bardhan - Contractual Arrangements, Employment and Wages in …, 1984
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[PDF] Inequality, market imperfections, and the voluntary provision of collective goods

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P Bardhan, M Ghatak… - Manuscript. Berkeley: Univ. …, 2002 - Citeseer
Abstract We analyze the effect of inequality in the distribution of endowment of private inputs
(eg, land, wealth) that are complementary in production with collective inputs (eg,
contribution to public goods such as irrigation and extraction from common-property ...
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[CITATION] Rural Poverty in South Asia

PK Bardhan… - New York: Columbia University, 1988
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[CITATION] The state against society: the great divide in Indian social science discourse

P Bardhan - Nationalism, Democracy and Development, 1997
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