It has been an article of faith in India that economic development is the best way of "winning the hearts and minds" of the Muslim people of the Kashmir valley. Give them jobs, roads, schools, colleges, hospitals etc., and they will start loving India.
Indeed, this has been the general solution tried in all countries that face a rebellion by a section of the population and their desire for secession. But it has never worked.
So three economists, Klaus Desmet Ignacio, Ortuño-Ortín and Ömer Özak, tried to find out why. They conducted extensive surveys and presented their findings in a
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