Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B)

Laura Alfaro, Lakshmi Iyer and Namrata Arora

Chapter 3 in Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets, 2016, pp 89-94 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: On October 3, 2008, Tata Motors announced the closing of its car manufacturing plant at Singur, in the state of West Bengal, India. The decision came in the face of widespread protests from local farmers, who claimed that their land had been acquired by the state government under questionable circumstances. Similar problems over land-acquisition issues affected many other industrial projects in India, posing a significant threat to the government's initiatives to spur employment in the manufacturing and services sectors…

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Economic Institutions; Property Rights; Economic Policy; Political Institutions; Political Economy; Economic Growth; Case Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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