There are significant value chain linkages between India and Bangladesh, particularly in the textile and apparel sector. India specializes in the upstream segment, supplying such intermediate inputs as silk, cotton, yarn, and fabrics to Bangladesh. Bangladesh specializes in the downstream final...

NOTE: The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. Developing countries have a variety of governmental and trade policies which are intended to affect the return to capital and also distort factor prices. These distortions are significant and exist even before the...

Developing countries have a variety of governmental and trade policies which are intended to affect the return to capital. In our estimation of the return to capital in Colombia we attempt to account for taxes, both direct and indirect, governmental subsidies, and trade taxes and subsidies. We...