Boosting India’s capital goods’ exports
Union budget 2021-22 has proposed a sharp 34.5% hike in capital expenditure, which is expected to boost the capital goods sector. While the sector has grown since liberalisation, its share in the glob...
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Parthapratim Pal
Swathysree S S
10 February, 2021
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Inequality and trade: Simulation evidence for 54 developing nations
Questions about who benefits from free trade – and at what cost – have resurfaced as part of the backlash against globalisation. This article uses data from 54 low- and middle-income countries to ...
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Erhan Artuc
Guido Porto
Bob Rijkers
05 March, 2020
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Import competition, formalisation, and role of contract workers
Given the recent expansion in the participation of developing countries in global trade, it is important to understand the role of trade in the composition of employment in these countries. Analysing ...
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Pavel Chakraborty
Rahul Singh
Vidhya Soundararajan
27 January, 2021
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Trade rules in e-commerce: Opportunities and concerns for India
India, which is among the fastest growing markets for e-commerce in the world, submitted a formal document to the WTO in December 2017 opposing any negotiations on trade in the sector. In this post, M...
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Avantika Kapoor
Arpita Mukherjee
04 June, 2018
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The Study of the Food Processing Industry in Bihar
The aim of the project is to understand the driving force for industrial development in the food processing sector in Bihar. The findings of the study revealed that development in food processing in B...
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Barna Ganguli
Debdatta Saha
08 July, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Foreign market access and competition in India's textile and clothing industries: Impacts on firms and workers
This project aims to estimate the effects of foreign market access and export competition on plants and workers in the textiles and clothing industries in India.
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Krisztina Kis-Katos
Janneke Pieters
Shruti Sharma
31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
One Nation, Many Worlds: Varieties of Developmental Regimes in India
The project developed a theory on developmental regimes through a systematic examination of the variation in policy priorities across Indian states. The findings from the project suggest that two fact...
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Poulomi Chakrabarti
Ashutosh Varshney
31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Industrial Agglomeration and (the Lack of) Competition
This project's objective is to use theoretically-motivated empirics to examine the relationship between market power and industrial agglomeration/clusters in order to better evaluate the impacts of de...
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Wyatt Brooks
Joseph Kaboski
Yao Amber Li
31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Should the rupee trade with Russia be revived?
The issue of revival of the bilateral rupee-denominated trade between India and Russia is back on the table after a break of over 20 years. This column contends that while there is justification for I...
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Pronab Sen
20 June, 2016
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Indo-Korea trade pact: Harnessing the potential in services
India and Korea signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in 2009, which resulted in an increase of 42% in bilateral trade between 2009-10 and 2012-13. This column examines the CEPA...
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Neetika Kaushal Nagpal
Saon Ray
Nisha Taneja
23 May, 2016
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Does the India-EU trade pact make sense for India? - II
In this article, Swati Dhingra, Assistant Professor of Economics at the LSE, contends that the proposed India-EU trade agreement is one-sided and would harm India’s economic interests. In her view, ...
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Swati Dhingra
29 April, 2016
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Does the India-EU trade pact make sense for India? - I
During the 13th India-EU Summit in Brussels last month, leaders from both sides welcomed the re-engagement on the stalled India-EU Free Trade Agreement. In this article, Devashish Mitra, Professor of ...
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Devashish Mitra
28 April, 2016
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Trade liberalisation and intergenerational occupational mobility in urban India
While the trade reforms of the 90s led to a rapid increase in trade in India, there are concerns regarding the likely impact of the reforms on inequality. This column shows that innovation induced by...
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Reshad N Ahsan
Arpita Chatterjee
18 April, 2016
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India-ASEAN economic linkages: Challenges and way forward
India’s ‘Look East’ policy picked up steam with the conceptualisation of the Indian-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement in 2003. This column analyses the broad trends in India-ASEAN trade over the past d...
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Deeparghya Mukherjee
10 March, 2016
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Creating a services value chain between India and Thailand
In the past two decades, India has signed several bilateral and regional comprehensive free trade agreements with Southeast Asian countries, which are likely to enhance services trade, investment and...
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Tanu Goyal
Arpita Mukherjee
08 July, 2015
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Trade rules in e-commerce: Opportunities and concerns for India
India, which is among the fastest growing markets for e-commerce in the world, submitted a formal document to the WTO in December 2017 opposing any negotiations on trade in the sector. In this post, M...
Avantika Kapoor
Arpita Mukherjee
04 June, 2018
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What explains India’s poor performance in garment exports?
India has been losing its share of the world garment trade over time – it went down from 6% in 2013 to 3.5% in 2016. This article examines the Indian garment industry based on a survey of garment ma...
Saon Ray
28 August, 2019
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Trade agreements and their impact on India’s apparel exports
Slow progress of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations has led to a proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements, and consequent increase in trade among their members. While India continues t...
Arpita Mukherjee
Anusree Paul
Angana Parashar Sarma
Soham Sinha
07 January, 2019
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