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    Regional openness, income growth and disparity across major Indian states during 1980-2004

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    As a country progressively engages in international trade, its factors of production will increasingly enter into the export sector, where their return is higher, compared to the import competing sector. At the regional level too, those states that can attune their production structure to international demands earn higher than other states, grow at a faster rate.
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    Informal wage and formal sector productivity: theory and evidences from India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    It is understood that the ability of firms to avoid minimum wage laws, certain types of taxes and the livelihood needs for a vast majority of population leads to the formation of the unorganized sector whose significance can hardly be undermined if one is seriously interested in understanding the working of a typical developing economy.
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    Pattern of agricultural diversification in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    Agricultural diversification as measured by increase in the per cent of non-food crops has grown; whereas diversification as measured by the concentration indices has remained unchanged in the recent decade. There have been significant changes in the pattern of agricultural diversification at the regional level.
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    Does Islamic banking development favor macroeconomic efficiency?: evidence on the Islamic finance – growth nexus

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    Islamic finance can be defined as finance that conforms to Islamic law, and there was an impressive expansion of this finance in recent years. The aim of this paper is to investigate the macroeconomic impact of Islamic banking development by analysing the relation between this development and productivity estimated at the macroeconomic level.
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    Revision of India-Nepal treaty of trade and its implications for strengthening bilateral trade and investment linkages

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    Relations between India and Nepal have been bound by long standing geographical, historical, cultural, social and economic ties that the peoples’ of the two countries have shared since time immemorial.
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    Geographical indications at the WTO: an unfinished agenda

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    Over the recent past, Geographical Indication (GI) has emerged as one of the most contentious categories of intellectual property (IP). Two among the three TRIPS issues presently under discussion at the WTO pertain to GIs, the third being the relationship between the TRIPS and the CBD.
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    Rules of origin under regional trade agreements

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    Rules of origin (ROO) have emerged as an area in which consensus is hard to achieve among negotiating countries within an RTA. Disagreements over rules of origin have often deferred the implementation of several trade agreements. One of the reasons for this is because ROO are viewed as those obstructing trade.
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    Does governance matter for enhancing trade? Empirical evidence from Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The rise of Asia as a major economic power and growth centre in the world is an unprecedented development in the contemporary world.
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    Are trade openness and financial development complementary?

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    Trade liberalisation and financial deepening have assumed greater significance for a country’s economic growth performance in recent times. Several theoretical and empirical studies have devoted considerable attention to the association between economic performance and trade liberalization as well as to the connections between financial market development and economic growth.
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    Global financial crisis: implications for trade and industrial restructuring in India

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The world has been witnessing a financial and economic crisis following the sub-prime mortgage in the United States (Nanto, 2009; Bosworth and Flaaen, 2009).

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