Subject(s): Development economics. -- Property Rights -- Inequality -- Decentralization -- Markets, property rights and development - Information and co-ordination failures : competitive efficiency wage model with Keynesian features, competition and incentives with non-exclusive contracts, information rents and property rights in land, contractual structure and wealth accumulation, inequality, control rights and rent seeking, productivity, contracting modes and development -- Governance and development - Tax evasion and corruption : Optimal auditing , insurance and redistribution, corruptible law enforcers, tax administration reforms and taxpayers compliance in India -- Decentralization : Capture and governance at local, decentralizing anti-poverty programme delivery in developing countries, decentralization in west Bengal