Law and the Economy in Colonial India

by Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enforcement and secure property rights. But it's widely acknowledged that India's legal infrastructure is in urgent need of reform, plagued by problems, including slow enforcement of contracts and land laws...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022638764X
• ISBN13: 9780226387642
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"