Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013
This paper reports results of a household survey in Singur, West Bengal concerning compensation offered by the state government to owners of land acquired to make way for a car factory. While on average compensations o.ered were close to the reported market valuations of land, owners of high...