06 July, 2022India’s trade protectionism and low-productivity vicious cycle
Amid rising populism and anti-globalisation movements across the world, Atmanirbhar Bharat represents India’s adoption of trade protectionism. While the country’s inward-oriented economic policies...
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Srijan Shukla 
07 July, 2021
- Perspectives
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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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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Middleman Margins, Credit and Information Constraints: Potato Markets in West Bengal, India
This project investigates how potato farmers in West Bengal sell their crop to local traders, the determinants of farm-gate prices and margins earned by traders. Specifically, it examines the role of ...
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Pushkar Maitra Sandip Mitra Dilip Mookherjee Sujata Visaria
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Linkages among Capital Flows, Trade, and Growth in Developing Economies
International economic integration puts a country’s fortunes partly into the hands of others. When integration takes the form of financial interdependence, the potential domestic impact of external ...
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Maurice Obstfeld
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Trade and the financial crisis: a focus on developing countries
Motivated by the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the trade collapse, this project analyses the effect of past banking crises (1976-2002) on trade with a focus on African exporters.
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Nicolas Berman Philippe Martin Thierry Mayer Jose de Sousa
- 01 December, 2011
- IGC Research on India
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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...
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India’s trade protectionism and low-productivity vicious cycle
Amid rising populism and anti-globalisation movements across the world, Atmanirbhar Bharat represents India’s adoption of trade protectionism. While the country’s inward-oriented economic policies...
- Srijan Shukla
- 07 July, 2021
- Perspectives
Trade agreements and their impact on India’s apparel exports
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