15 April, 2025How firms adapt supply chains to climate risk
Amidst growing climate risks, localised weather events such as floods or droughts pose a threat to the links between firms and their suppliers. Using data from India, this article analyses how busines...
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Juanma Castro-Vincenzi Gaurav Khanna Nicolas Morales Nitya Pandalai-Nayar 
03 February, 2025
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Red flags in EU’s green trade policies
The approach to aligning trade practices with sustainability has shifted from soft commitments to mandatory regulations and standards. In this post, Abrol and Singh reflect on how two such policies ...
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Sakshi Abrol Surendar Singh
- 15 January, 2025
- Perspectives
Economic integration and the transmission of democracy
Dramatic increases in globalisation resulted in autocratic countries being exposed to the institutions and values of their democratic trade partners. Exploiting improvements in air transportation rela...
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Giacomo Magistretti Marco Tabellini
- 15 June, 2023
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Mega-trading blocs: Where does India stand?
Emerging multilateral trading agreements, resulting in mega-trading blocs, seem to be replacing global negotiations through the WTO. In this article, Sharmila Kantha assesses the potential impact of ...
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Sharmila Kantha
- 07 November, 2014
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International trade, domestic labour laws and India’s manufacturing sector
India has a multitude of restrictive labour laws and these have been found to adversely affect economic performance of manufacturing firms. This column illustrates how the impact of trade liberalisati...
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Devashish Mitra
- 22 September, 2014
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Protectionism under the guise of food security
India has backed out of the commitment it made at the WTO negotiations in Bali in November 2013. The implicit explanation is that the government needs to accumulate food grain stocks to provide subsid...
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Ashok Kotwal Milind Murugkar Bharat Ramaswami
- 10 August, 2014
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India's WTO problem: A proposal
India is threatening to block the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement unless its agricultural policies are exempted from multilateral scrutiny. This article contends that while India’s objectives on ag...
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Arvind Subramanian
- 31 July, 2014
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Impact of trade reforms on labour’s share of firm revenues
The decline in labour’s share of national income in recent decades – a potential cause of rising inequality – has coincided with an increase in world trade. This column analyses the impact of tr...
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Reshad N Ahsan Devashish Mitra
- 25 July, 2014
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Turning to the pharmaceutical sector for enhancing India-Pakistan trade
Various efforts have been made to normalise trade relations between India and Pakistan in the past few years; yet, several barriers remain. This column examines the trade potential in pharmaceuticals ...
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Devyani Pande Manoj Pant
- 23 July, 2014
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Trade as aid
Preferential or duty/quota-free trade access to developing countries, as a form of foreign aid by developed countries, is considered to have both pros and cons. This column analyses data from Banglade...
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Ivan Cherkashin Svetlana Demidova Hiau Looi Kee Kala Krishna
- 09 June, 2014
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An Indian trade paradox
India’s trading partners often complain about the restrictiveness of India’s trade regime. This column argues that they are both right and wrong. While India´s economy is ‘closed’ in terms of...
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Arvind Subramanian
- 09 April, 2014
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Bali conundrum: WTO and Indian agriculture
The outcome of the recent WTO meetings at Bali is a stopgap arrangement, which implies that the Indian government does not have to make any changes in the implementation of the new Food Security Act i...
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Ashok Kotwal Milind Murugkar Bharat Ramaswami
- 15 January, 2014
- Perspectives
Exchange-rate pass-through by Indian and Chinese exporters
The pricing behaviour of exporters in emerging markets confirms that the already well-reported decline in exchange rate sensitivity of import prices is due to export prices becoming more sensitive to ...
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Sushanta Mallick Helena Marques
- 15 April, 2013
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Potato Traders in West Bengal: A Survey of Contractual Relations and Market Structure
This study consists of a pilot survey of a random subset of phorias (middlemen) and larger traders who operate in 72 villages of West Medinipur and Hugli districts in West Bengal and their correspondi...
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Pushkar Maitra Sandip Mitra Dilip Mookherjee Alberto Motta Sujata Visaria
- 01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Middleman Margins, Credit and Information Constraints: Potato Markets in West Bengal, India
This project investigates how potato farmers in West Bengal sell their crop to local traders, the determinants of farm-gate prices and margins earned by traders. Specifically, it examines the role of ...
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Pushkar Maitra Sandip Mitra Dilip Mookherjee Sujata Visaria
- 31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
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India’s trade protectionism and low-productivity vicious cycle
Amid rising populism and anti-globalisation movements across the world, Atmanirbhar Bharat represents India’s adoption of trade protectionism. While the country’s inward-oriented economic policies...
- Srijan Shukla
- 07 July, 2021
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What explains India’s poor performance in garment exports?
India has been losing its share of the world garment trade over time – it went down from 6% in 2013 to 3.5% in 2016. This article examines the Indian garment industry based on a survey of garment ma...
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- 28 August, 2019
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Implications of shifting trends and patterns in India’s oil exports
Sharmila Kantha outlines why the high share of petroleum products in India's exports is a concern – particularly considering the declining trend in India's oil and gas production and fluctuating glo...
- Sharmila Kantha
- 22 January, 2024
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