Economic Growth, Law, and Corruption: Evidence from India

Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Jha, Raghbendra

doi:10.1057/ces.2013.4

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“…Revocation of Article 370 will open opportunities for growth and development. Corruption impacts economic growth directly or indirectly and reduces human capital and private investment in Jammu and Kashmir (Dimant & Tosoto, 2018;Bhattacharyya & Jha, 2013;Mir, 2019).…”

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Youth Aspirations and Expectations of Economic Recovery of Jammu and Kashmir in India after Abrogation of Article 370

Aslam

Sudan

2021

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The paper intends to explore the perceptions of the youth regarding the economic recovery of Jammu and Kashmir in India after the abrogation of Article 370, and to draw the policy implications for the speedier economic recovery of conflict-ridden regions. The study has been confined to the Jammu region and focused on four selected districts of the Jammu region viz Jammu, Kathua, Rajouri, and Poonch. A cluster sampling technique has been used to select respondents from the selected districts. The study has been restricted to the educated youth of selected districts as they represent the hope for the future and they can better interpret economic recovery. The primary data has been collected through a questionnaire survey of the youth of selected districts. A total of 120 educated youth (graduates, postgraduates, research degree holders belonging to different religious groups viz. Hindus and Muslims: 40 each, and Christians and Sikhs: 20 each) have been selected based on their approximate proportional representation in the total population. Data has been analyzed using simple descriptive statistics. The paper reveals that economic recovery requires significant development of businesses and local economies. Young population is the heartbeat and energetic force for economic development. Therefore, their participation in economic recovery is vital to give right direction to the economy specifically since the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. The developmental aspirations of the youth focused on agriculture reforms, investment in manufacturing, transportation, health, education, infrastructure, banking, and transparency in all development planning and implementation. Youth education and training and self-employment including the development of tourism, horticulture and handicrafts sectors were prioritized for economic recovery post-abrogation of Article 370. Addressing persistently high unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir has been ranked as one of the top priority areas for economic recovery. There is a need to rejuvenate the sick industrial units for creating sustained employment opportunities for youth. Tourism, handicrafts and horticulture sectors should be developed to reduce poverty, promote exports and generate employment for the youth through substantial funding from the Central government and private sector.

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Youth Aspirations and Expectations of Economic Recovery of Jammu and Kashmir in India after Abrogation of Article 370

Aslam

Sudan

2021

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“…Indeed, the implementation of RTI law in the region has generated both optimism and cynicism about their impacts. Those in the optimist camp present the growing local level evidence and anecdotes that point to how RTIs have started to change the OG landscape by giving rights and entitlements to the ordinary citizens and making governments more open and accountable than previously (Baroi & Alam, 2020;Bhattacharyya & Jha, 2009;Ghosh, 2018;Jha, 2018). Others point to the limitations of the current RTI regime, lack of awareness among the ordinary citizens and bureaucratic indifference as implementation challenges.…”

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Open government and the right to information: Implications for transparency and accountability in Asia

Zafarullah

Siddiquee

2021

Public Admin & Development

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Many countries inAsia have recently been following the global trend by introducing the right to information (RTI) law to build open and accountable government systems. This article compares the implementation of such law in four countries in the Asian region (India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Thailand) to assess how they have produced outcomes supporting open government (OG) goals. Drawing on an extensive review of the conceptual literature, secondary sources and official publications, it shows that, notwithstanding many promising features, RTI laws have performed poorly within the overarching notion of OG. Implementation has suffered from numerous deficits and challenges implicating both the demand and supply-side actors-those who seek information and those who are mandated to provide information under the law. Such challenges, together with an inherent flaw, deviation from rules, technical blunders and bureaucratic indifference and noncompliance, have rendered the RTI law mostly ineffective. The paper highlights current deficits/snags and underscores the imperative of raising the awareness and capacity at both community and official levels and creating a culture where transparency and openness is valued over secrecy and confidentiality. This would require strong political commitment, selfless bureaucratic support and genuine citizen engagement.

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“…Roberts succinctly states the complex political, economic and social picture: Its per-capita GDP is roughly one-twentieth of the United States. Two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people still lives in rural areas… Forty percent of the population is illiterate, and many belong to oppressed social groups and] there is recurrent sectional and political violence (2010, 2) Moreover, India is blighted with deep problems of political corruption (Bhattacharyya and Jha 2011). To illustrate the challenges, Webb points out that more than 45% of Delhi's population live in "slums, squat settlements or unauthorised colonies" (2012, 207).…”

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Access to Information in the UK and India

Worthy

2014

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International Journal of Open Government http://ojs.imodev.org/index.php?journal=RIGO supplemented by a variety of online transparency experiments using Open Data (Worthy 2013a). Access to Information laws (also known as Freedom of Information or Right to Information laws) now exist in 92 countries (Access Info/CLD 2013). They have been pushed as a key driver for improving government transparency and accountability, promoting more open cultures within public bodies and, it is hoped, increasing public participation and trust (Worthy 2010). In the developing world they are seen as a powerful anticorruption weapon and a means of securing wider social and political rights (Darch and Underwood 2010). While the idea of transparency appears simple, it conceals nuances and complex interpretations. According to Meijer "the specific form that government transparency takes-or does not-varies enormously. There is no uniform, standardized approach to transparency but an immense variety of sorts and types of government transparency" laws (2013, 2). The impact of FOI is "highly idiographic" and the "social and political contexts and specific histories of different countries" need to be taken into account (Darch and Underwood 2010, 7). Recent work has examined how transparency can move in different directions with different intentions, ranging from, for example, "mapping at high levels of aggregation" to localised, if not street level, "micro-level" openness (Heald 2012, 41). The dynamics are "complex because they entail interactions between a variety of actors, uncertain values and rapidly changing technology" and take place within "a variety of legal frameworks, in different cultural settings, and within complex national…policy contexts" (Meijer 2013, 1). These variations can lead to strategic uncertainty regarding aims, cognitive uncertainty as to policy options, and institutional uncertainty as transparency shifts rules and procedures (Meijer 2013, 3-4). Recent experimental research found that transparency in different policy areas can have very different effects on both institutions and public perceptions (De Fine Licht 2013: Grimmelikhaujsen 2012).

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Economic Growth, Law, and Corruption: Evidence from India

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Youth Aspirations and Expectations of Economic Recovery of Jammu and Kashmir in India after Abrogation of Article 370

Youth Aspirations and Expectations of Economic Recovery of Jammu and Kashmir in India after Abrogation of Article 370

Open government and the right to information: Implications for transparency and accountability in Asia

Access to Information in the UK and India

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