Recent export experience of some large, emerging economies has raised important questions about the trade determinants of the modern services-driven sectors and the goods-production-driven sectors. In our empirical analysis of the determinants of Indian exports of software services and of the...

In this study we apply the gravity model to the fast growing Indian exports of software and to the much more slowly growing total Indian commodity exports. In analyzing the results obtained, we pay special attention to: the distance variable, linguistic connections, and trade facilitating...