For the development of a country, its financial and economic backbone must be strong. This is especially true in the case of developing countries, who attach great importance to financial sector development and deepening in the pursuit of their poverty reduction goal. The financial sector...

This paper examines the role played by India in the negotiations at the WTO platform post-adoption of the 'Agreement on Agriculture' and its agenda for future. The chapterization of the paper is as under:(I) Introduction(II) Agreement on Agriculture: Basic Tenets(III) Agriculture: Post Uruguay...

More than 170 years ago, Frédéric Bastiat noted in his masterly work Economic Sophisms that the “opposition to free trade rests upon errors, or, if you prefer, upon half-truths.”1 Ever since Adam Smith successfully replaced mercantilist orthodoxy with free trade doctrine in his celebrated...

From the standpoint of policies, the different branches of economics may be aggregated into two categories: dirigiste and laissez fairist. Dirigiste theories in economics have been based primarily on the complexity of commodities: this allows commodities to be ranked according to the...

Deviant globalization is a 'powerful engine of wealth creation ...[P]articipating in deviant globalization is often an individual’s fastest ticket out of poverty and a way for an entire community to experience economic development.' Although some aspects of deviant globalization undeniably...

The study examines the impact of institutional quality on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows for emerging economies from South Asiain the period 2002-2016. Other economic factors such as globalisation, financial development, and GDP are also considered. Design/Methodology/Approach: The...