Selection of papers presented at the Fifth and Sixth Annual Conferences on "Contemporary Issues in Development Economics," held at and organized by Dept. of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, in September 1995 and December 1996

The paper analyzes the implications of trade liberalization on the incidence of child labour in a two-sector general equilibrium framework. The supply function of child labour has been derived from the utility maximizing behaviour of the working families. The paper finds that the effect of trade...

Optimal tax models, starting from Ramsey (1927), are often studied using a single government. However, there are several countries which are federations and in that multiple levels of government have fiscal authority, which masks the heterogeneity across states. In this paper we study a...