The paper reveals that formal trade in HYV rice seeds between India and Bangladesh is hampered by inefficiencies in the use of available resources, non-tariff barriers, inappropriate pricing of inputs and outputs, among others. It has been identified that there are significant variations in per...

In Bangladesh and India, serious problems with regard to making high-yielding variety (HYV) rice seeds available and accessible to farmers are noticed. A significant gap exists between demand and supply of most desired and adaptable varieties. In India, while the overall supply of HYV rice seeds...

Open regionalism and integration between the world's two largest developing countries - the People's Republic of China (China) and India - in trade, investments and infrastructure development can foster outward-oriented development and economic and social benefits that could result in poverty...

This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, we extend the protection for sale' model to allow for different...

As revealed by the trade intensity indices, India and the People's Republic of China have significant bilateral trade potential, which remains unexplored until now. These countries are presently negotiating for free trade arrangements among them based on their complementarities. This paper makes...

For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two mighty giants on the region's manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts...

In this paper we focus on the rapidly deepening bilateral India-China economic relationship. Each is deeply integrating into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as service-lead growth (see Rodrick & Subramanian...