How Property and Civil Rights Help Forest Tribes Modernize and Prosper: Lessons from India
JULY 30, 2020 • POLICY ANALYSIS NO. 898 By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar and Neeraj Kaushal Do historically isolated forest tribes need protection from modernization? Critics claim that modernization, especially through dams and mining, is disastrous for tribes and that tribespeople cannot …
India Should Join Asia’s New Free‐Trade Area
FEBRUARY 5, 2020 • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN NO. 32 By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar After seven years of negotiations, India has backed out of joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a Free Trade Area (FTA) that was to include 16 countries—the …