exports of information technology/information technology-enabled services (IT/ITeS), India is uniquely placed to become a … countries have imposed some form of data localisation measures. With the onset of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic …With a large pool of engineers and scientists, the presence of over 9300 technology-based startups and its strengths in …

trade lines open and preparing the international trading system for a post-pandemic world must take three steps immediately …Within a few short weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has accomplished what multiple wars (hot and cold) failed to achieve … trade during this vulnerable period is likely to backfire. Rather than delivering security of supply for domestic …

World trade contracted dramatically during the global economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Disruptions in … the supply and demand channels in trade by quantifying the causal effect of supply spillovers from lockdowns. We utilize a … novel dataset of daily bilateral seaborne trade, and design a shift-share identification strategy that leverages geography …

demand model in 2020 vary systematically with the health preparedness of trade partners, suggesting that pandemic … spillovers accounted for up to 60 percent of the observed decline in trade in the early phase of the pandemic, but their effect …While standard demand factors perform well in predicting historical trade patterns, they fail conspicuously in 2020 …

COVID-19 vaccines, several developing countries have asked other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to join them … countries to urgently needed medicines. But the last thing the WTO needs is another debate over perceived trade obstacles to …

The current study focuses on India's impressive merchandise export performance during the pandemic, as well as the … that India’s export earning in FY 2021-22 is in-fact going to surpass US $ 400 billion and the same holds true for the … subsequent year. However, India’s exports when investigated at detailed HS 6-digit level revealed a high degree of dependence on …

trade barriers. The OECD Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (Digital STRI) is a new tool that identifies …, catalogues, and quantifies cross-cutting barriers between 2014 and 2018 that affect trade in digitally-enabled services across …Digital transformation has enabled easier tradability of traditional services across borders and the emergence of new …