between export intensity and TFP, which implies that more productive firms are more likely to select in to exporting. …

of a free trade area is expected to affect its participants—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and …

From chronic shortages of milk, India has emerged today as the largest producer of milk in the world crossing 80 … protected through quantitative restrictions (QRs) and stringent licensing provisions. Since early 1990s, India embarked upon … opening-up increasingly exposed the Indian dairy sector to the global markets, which in-turn are distorted by export subsidies …

that this time is used wisely to increase productivity, switch to more profitable crops and take advantage of the new …

situation of food shortages, the country is now the second largest rice exporter after Thailand. Export projections indicate … that there is potential for further export growth in all but the most pessimistic scenarios. This potential is constrained …, however, by the relatively underdeveloped marketing system. A few large state enterprises have access to capital and export …