Arkadev Ghosh on Religious Divisions and Production Technology
Ideas of India
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Political Business Cycles in India
Political business cycles in mining areas, where there's a lot of naxal activity. I find that this is inverted ushape patter, in the sense that after an election it really goes up. And then as we now sort of the election cycle ends, the next set of elections, they go down again. So with respect to the conflict, i mean, it's established that nuxs want to stop the smooth function of election. Extortion of mining revenues forms a large economic base for the naxelites so what i show is that, you know, this reduction in mining leading up to an election is strategic in that it's a way to reduce this resource base
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