I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world … economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India is still one of the more autarkic … countries. Despite improvement over the past in export performance, India continues to lag behind its South- and East Asian …

, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these …

recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in … EGs, the EGs’ net exporters are more likely to see their local pollution to decrease, in particular thanks to income …

Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our focus is on applying the gravity model to analyze India's trade flows (exports and imports …) with its trading partners around the world and to examine the impact of various PTAs in which India or its trading partner … or both are members. Clearly this is of interest, since, from 1991 India is aggressively negotiating and concluding PTAs …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has boomed in post-reform India. Moreover, the composition and type of FDI has changed … considerably since India has opened up to world markets. This has fuelled high expectations that FDI may serve as a catalyst to … higher economic growth. We assess the growth implications of FDI in India by subjecting industry-specific FDI and output data …

(MNC) affiliates in India compared to the case of China, using the unique affiliate-level data. The study shows that … Japanese MNCs in India follow the typical MNC expansion strategy in that rapidly growing emerging economy with a focus on the … that India will grow as an export platform similar to China because of the former country's unique FDI experiences and …