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Household property (land and buildings) holdings as per AIDS (NSS 77th, 2019)
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land
The All-India Debt and Investments Survey conducted during the NSS 77th round in 2019 provides us an estimate for the value of land owned by households. For context, I’m collecting data to estimate the revenue…
‘I want to make a loss, just give me the mine’ or …
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natural resources
Rajesh Chadha and Ganesh Sivamani show, in their paper, how the payments that miners would make to the government for the privilege of getting the mining lease, namely auction premia, as bid by the miners themselves, and…
India’s natural resource rents (as per World Bank)
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natural resources
I’ve previously posted about the economic rent derived from India’s coal, oil, and natural gas, sand and iron ore in Goa. In this post, I’m going to share the World Bank’s estimates of rents from all of India’s natural resources…
History of Sortition in India
sortition
history
I’ve previously posted about trial by jury because I recognize the benefits of using lottery for the selection of public officials (what is known as “sortition”). Many believe that sortition is a foreign concept, imposed on us by British colonizers. While it’s true that the British introduced jury trials in India, and that…
Illegal coal mining estimates (and the Naxalite insurgency)
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natural resources
Jason Miklian and Scott Carney’s “Fire in the Hole” published in the Foreign Policy magazine is on India’s Naxalite insurgency but it also discusses illegal coal mining in Jharkhand (since it is a connected issue) and…
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