into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as …, India-China bilateral trade has increased by a factor of 33 between 1995 and 2007, and this growth has occurred at an … accelerating rate. This compares with a 7 fold increase in the China’s overall trade this period. With bilateral FDI the increase …

robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern … –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of …

The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more “sophisticated … many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting that attracting inflows of FDI offers potential for upgrading a … sectors treated by investment promotion agencies as priority in their efforts to attract FDI. The sample covers 116 countries …

Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to the standard trade-to-GDP ratio, we derive and propose an … aggregate freeness-of-trade measure based on phiness of trade. Both measures are instrumented by proxies constructed from …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …