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The current consensus on indirect tax reform in developing countries favors a reduction in trade taxes with an increase in VAT to raise revenue. The theoretical results on selective reform that underlie this consensus are, however, derived from partial models that ignore the existence of an...
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The value-added tax (VAT) in China has the unusual feature that capital goods are included in the VAT base. In addition, most services are subject to the business tax, which is not creditable against VAT, but which accrues to local governments, and operates as a turnover tax. On grounds of...
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India and Pakistan are the leading textile trading nations in the world. Among the major sectors, the textile and … clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in … higher tariffs by way of being in India's sensitive list are much higher than that for Pakistan. Bilateral trade is more …
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There are significant value chain linkages between India and Bangladesh, particularly in the textile and apparel sector …. India specializes in the upstream segment, supplying such intermediate inputs as silk, cotton, yarn, and fabrics to … Bangladesh. Bangladesh specializes in the downstream final apparel segment, exporting worldwide as well as to India. Tariffs and …
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Today, as India treads the path of becoming a knowledge economy, we face a paradox of intensifying skill shortages …/education mismatch and analyse the economic returns/cost to over/under education in one of India's largest labour intensive industries …: Textiles and Clothing (T&C). The study is based on the 68th round of NSS Employment and Unemployment Survey estimates. Using …
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