Since small economies are not in a favourable position compared to the relatively large economies in the world market when it comes to benefits from trade, the issues of trade openness and its impacts on economic growth has been of critical importance to small and open economies. The paper...

This study tries to look at how 'open' Indian states are with respect to international trade and then try to characterise the relationship between regional disparity and 'openness'. The major purpose of this work is to develop an openness index at the regional or state level. It is well...