Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Political Economy of Resources and Infrastructure in India -- 1 - Problems with land acquisition -- 2 - Impact on industry -- 3 - Impact on the power sector -- 3.1 - Impact of Mining -- 3.2 -...

The popular perception about economic reforms having benefitted only the richer districts of India between 1999/2000 and 2004/2005 is investigated. Using the spatial dynamics of district-level per-capita income it was found that income distribution did not change between the years examined. It...

Recently there have been much discussion of the theory and applications of long memory processes. In this paper we consider the standard linear model y=X*b+u and assume that the variance covariance matrix of the errors being generated from an ARFIMA(0,d,0) model. Following Banerjee and Magnus...