How does international competition affect overseas outsourcing? While it is commonly believed that international … competition enables firms to desert high cost countries in favor of low wage locations, the frequency of such responses may be …

coordination failure Whereas the harmful effects of tariff competition have been thoroughly explored in the trade policy literature … little is known about the externalities that result from jurisdictional corporate tax policies on the trade of multinational … levels of tax revenues and corporate profits but also the volume of trade through a more efficient allocation of tax burden …

, focusing on contributions that investigate the determinants of international trade and investment in services, the potential …Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by … the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of …

, 2 savings/investment accounts (private and public) and 2 foreign accounts (Nigeria and the rest of the world). The …

. Efficiency - particularly investment in building technological capabilities and skills - and access to commercial bank credit …

foreign investment flows. India is among the top ten World Trade Organization member countries in trade in services, and the …Services are a major component of global gross domestic product and employment, and a rising component of global trade … and investment flows. This is the largest sector of the Indian economy contributing significantly to economic growth and …

interest as well as economic distortions. The purpose of this paper is to develop an indicator of the distortionary effects of …, this indicator intends to proxy the distortions induced by rent-seeking firms. The RDI is a first step to size up the …

India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the last two decades. However, an acceleration of … or external finance, and labour-intensive industries have not been able to reap the maximum benefits of reforms. The …

, regulation of trade and investment flows, and gender-sensitive public sector spending. … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …