A mortgage is an exchange of a collection of rights between a borrower and a lender. In this article, we describe those rights and explain both their economic logic and their implications for economic analysis and policy. We briefly discuss the medieval origins of the American mortgage contract...

This article offers an analytic overview of India's achievements to date, what its future prospects are, what its rise means to the global economy in the next fifteen years and what challenges India faces in terms of future reforms. The article begins by presenting a summary of the country's...