Category Archives: Exports

India’s Export Opportunity in Africa: Issues and Challenges in Select Sectors

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Anitha

Rakesh Mohan Joshi, Biswajit Nag and Ashish Gupta W.P.No. EC-13-18 April 2013 The paper focuses on bilateral strategic cooperation between India and Africa highlighting that some of the fastest-growing economies in the world are now in Africa. It has analyzed … Continue reading →

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Chinese firms’ entry to export markets : the role of foreign export spillovers

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Gopakumar

by Florian Mayneris and Sandra Poncet WB Policy Research Paper no.WPS 6398, March 2013  In this paper, the effect of proximity to multinational exporters on the creation of new export linkages (the extensive margin of trade) is debated. Using panel … Continue reading →

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Does Weak Rupee Matter for India’s Manufacturing Exports?

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Gopakumar

by Bhanumurthy, N.R. and Chandan Sharma NIPFP WP No.2013-115, January 2013 The role of weak exchange rate in stimulating exports is a foregone conclusion both at the theoretical as well as in empirical literature. This is more so in many … Continue reading →

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Export Growth in India: An Empirical Investigation

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Gopakumar

by P.Srinivasan and M. Kalaivani MPRA Paper n0. 43828, january 2013 This paper empirically investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility on the real exports in India using the ARDL bounds testing procedure proposed by Pesaran et al. (2001). Using … Continue reading →

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The Real Exchange Rate and Export Growth: Are Services Different?

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta NIPFP Working Paper no.112, November 2012 We consider the determinants of exports of services, distinguishing between modern and traditional services. We consider both the growth of export volumes and so-called export surges – periods … Continue reading →

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Monitoring export vulnerability to changes in growth rates of major global markets

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Claire H. Hollweg; Daniel Lederman and Jose-Daniel Reyes WB Policy Research Paper no. WPS 6266, November 2012 Interest in assessing the impacts on developing countries of changes in major markets’ economic performance has risen in tandem with global economic … Continue reading →

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Import tariffs and export subsidies in the World Trade Organization: A small-country approach

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Sivakumar

by Tanapong Potipiti ARTNeT Working Paper Series, No. 119, September 2012 This paper develops a simple small-country model to explain why the World Trade Organization (WTO) prohibits export subsidies but allows import tariffs. Governments choose protection rates (import tariffs/export subsidies) … Continue reading →

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Regional Origin of Manufacturing Exports: Inter-State Patterns in India

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Jaya Prakash Pradhan and Keshab Das MPRA Paper no.41801, October 2012 Regardless of exports’ increasing roles in national and state level economic growth performance, there are hardly any studies that analyze inter-state disparities in export activities.Constructing a unique dataset … Continue reading →

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A Study on Environmental Compliance of Indian Leather Industry & its Far-reaching Impact on Leather Exports

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Chandan Roy MPRA Paper no.41386, May 2012 Indian Leather industry is recognized as one of the most promising foreign exchange earning sectors since early ’70s of the previous century. The industry was hard hit by two consecutive foreign environment-bans … Continue reading →

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China–India Merchandise Trade: Retrospect and Prospects

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Sivakumar

by Anjali Tandon No. 104, 2012 This paper studies the changes in the pattern of bilateral trade between China and India consequent to China’s accession to WTO in 2001 and assesses the complementarities and challenges in trade. Using data for … Continue reading →

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