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Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B)

In: INSTITUTIONS, INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN EMERGING MARKETS

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  • Laura Alfaro
  • Lakshmi Iyer
  • Namrata Arora

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On October 3, 2008, Tata Motors announced the closing of its car manufacturing plant at Singur, in the state of West Bengal, India. The decision came in the face of widespread protests from local farmers, who claimed that their land had been acquired by the state government under questionable circumstances. Similar problems over land-acquisition issues affected many other industrial projects in India, posing a significant threat to the government's initiatives to spur employment in the manufacturing and services sectors…

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  • Laura Alfaro & Lakshmi Iyer & Namrata Arora, 2016. "Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B)," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: INSTITUTIONS, INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN EMERGING MARKETS, chapter 3, pages 89-94, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    1. Simon Deakin & Antara Haldar, 2015. "How Should India Reforms Its Labour Laws?," Working Papers wp469, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.

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