This study investigates the role of India's economy in explaining the observed growth in South Asia, taking into consideration other sources of growth endogenous to the countries in the region. Since a review of key variables indicates that India's bilateral trade and financial linkages with...

This paper uses a general equilibrium trade framework to estimate the contribution of transport infrastructure to regional development. I apply the analysis to India, a country with a notoriously weak and congested transportation infrastructure. I first analyze the development effects of a...

In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...

The study covers several aspects of FDI in the country, ranging from FDI patterns and FDIdrivers to FDI relations, growth and exports, taking into account several factors such as theformation of raw equities, macroeconomic stability, institutional capital and human capital.In recent years, the...

Every economy wishes to achieve the highest sustainable growth. Growth of a country is backed by availability of required resources. Money is one of the major sources that lead to development. India being a developing economy needs a lot of finance for its development. Due to low level of...

The study seeks to foster fresh empirical evidence on how FDI is relevant to the foreign trade growth in India under a time-varying parameter model with vector autoregres-sive specification. The Johansen's cointegration test documents a significant and posi-tive long-run co-movement between FDI...

The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese reforms, especially with respect to manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely...

Since 2001, the extensive growth in domestic economy were potentially associated with the scale of foreign direct inflows that were largely interconnected with industrial growth, re-shuffling investment policies, and availability of large market size in India. However, the government remained...