This paper compares the export performance of the textiles and clothing industries in India and China using the revealed comparative advantage and the Kreinin-Finger similarity indices. The results indicate that China has much higher shares in world exports of both textiles and clothing, while...

This paper argues that the trend and volatility in the terms of trade need to be treated not as separate phenomena but rather as 'twin-pillars' of the same underlying problem faced by LDCs; namely their heavy dependence on primary commodities (or more recently upon components and parts of...