Indian Growth and Development Review: Volume 13 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Sajal Lahiri, Satya Das

China, India and the contest for the Indo-Pacific

Peter Robertson, Jingdong Yuan, Harsha Konara Mudiyanselage

The purpose of this paper is to describe how China’s rapid growth and increasing resource dependence have changed its relationship with India and their respective defense…

Conflict, caste and resolution: a quantitative analysis for Indian villages

Vani Kant Borooah, Anirudh Tagat, Vinod Mishra

The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative assessment of caste-based conflict in India. The data for this paper are from the Rural Economic and Demographic Survey…

Understanding subnational conflicts in Myanmar

Partha Gangopadhyay, Siddharth Jain

This paper aims to examine the interrelationships between subnational conflicts in Myanmar and other variables of interests from the following four major domains: economic, human…

Leadership preferences and ethnic bargaining: theory and illustrations

Shale Horowitz, Min Ye

In explaining ethno-territorial conflicts, leadership preferences have an odd status. In case studies, leadership preferences are often viewed as highly significant causes but are…

Peace keeping in a model of conflict with foreign investments

Sajal Lahiri, Valerica Vlad

This paper aims to examine the role of outside peacekeepers in a bilateral conflict.

Aid and terrorism: a dynamic contracts approach with interlinked moral hazard

Jaideep Roy, Prabal Roy Chowdhury

In a global environment where terrorist organisations based in a poor country target a rich nation, this paper aims to study the properties of a dynamically incentive compatible…

Terrorism risk and optimal policy response: theory and empirics

Hamid Mohtadi, Bryan Weber

The proliferation of terrorism worldwide raises the risk that terrorist strategies could evolve from conventional methods (e.g. suicide attacks) to biological, chemical and even…