Development policy and legal persistence: Evidence from India

Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy

Rivista di storia economica, 2025, issue 1, 95-116

Abstract: It is widely believed that colonial-era institutions, including laws, persist well past independence. This is due to political vested interests or high switching costs. While these factors have surely mattered, the most important determinant of independent India’s legal trajectory has been its development strategy. With some important exceptions and delays, law has usually persisted or changed as needed by development policy.

Keywords: Colonialism; Institutional change; Colonial-era institutions; Development strategy; Legal persistence; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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