From Detroit to Singur: On the Question of Land Acquisition for Private Development
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Note: Except for the introductory section written for readers unfamiliar with the incidents at Singur, West Bengal, this essay is an English rendering of my original piece published in the Nov 17, 2009 issue of the Bengali magazine, Desh.
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- Patil, Vikram & Ghosh, Ranjan & Kathuria, Vinish & Farrell, Katharine N., 2020. "Money, Land or self-employment? Understanding preference heterogeneity in landowners’ choices for compensation under land acquisition in India," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
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Eminent Domain; Strategic Holdout; Fair compensation;All these keywords.
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- K11 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Property Law
- R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2010-05-22 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-HIS-2010-05-22 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAW-2010-05-22 (Law and Economics)
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