meets and suits the demands of the changed economic scenario in India and abroad. The purpose of formulating a competition … law in India was to shift the focus from curbing monopolies to promoting competition. Competition in a market contributes … malafide practices which leads to unhealthy competition and only big players have chance to win the game. In the pursuit of …

This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether …

targeting, the difficulty in identifying the poor promotes a universal allocation of benefits. To address this question, this … study examines the targeting performance of, and access to, a social welfare scheme for an increasingly vulnerable group … - India's elderly poor. The results show that during a time period of social pension reforms, exclusion and inclusion errors …

We argue that economic inequality harms social provisions for the poor, but that higher political competition can … mitigate this effect. We test this hypothesis using a large redistricting of electoral boundaries in India and find that higher … inequality causes more post-neonatal infant deaths, but only when there is weak political competition. We further show that …