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    India's FTAs with East and SE Asia: impact of India-Malaysia CECA on the edible oil value chain

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This paper formulates an analytical framework to assess the impacts of India's Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on commodity value chains. Existing academic literature have relied on examining Balance of Payments (BoP) to assess the impact of FTAs. The paper views such methodology as reductionist, and instead others alternative lenses of the impacts on the commodity value chain.
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    India’s growing dependence on imports in the area of bulk drugs

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    In the background of concerns being voiced by pharmaceutical industry and academics as well as policymakers, RIS organised a Colloquium on India’s Growing Dependence on Imports in the Area of Bulk Drugs in New Delhi on 23 December 2014 to provide inputs for government policymaking. The Colloquium observed that:
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    Economic challenges for the new government: suggestions for policy formulation

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2009
    This paper discusses economic opportunities for India in the context of the new government taking power in May 2009. An important imperative for the new government would be to revive business confidence and optimism. The key to economic revival is as much in restoring public and corporate confidence as it is in targeted fiscal stimulus.
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    Strategic trade policy for network goods oligopolies

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    This paper analyses strategic trade policy for differentiated network goods oligopolies (markets in which a few firms dominate) under alternative scenarios, when there is export-rivalry between two countries. It shows that, under price competition without managerial delegation, it is optimal to tax (subsidise) exports, if network externalities are weak (strong).
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    South Africa, Africa, and the BRICS: progress, problems, and prospects: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa, 2014.
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    Changing global trade scenario and the Indian economy

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    The direction of global trade is set to change as mega agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) come into force. The TPP includes 12 of the Pacific Rim countries including US and Australia whereas TTIP is between the US and the European Union. Respectively, they represent around 39 percent and 60 per cent of the world GDP.
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    Doing business with Afghanistan

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    India and Afghanistan enjoy a rich civilization and historical relationship that spans many millennia; a relationship that has gained strength from India’s role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
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    External preferential trade agreements and the Indian economy: an analysis of impacts and counter measures

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Deepening of plurilateral commercial relations elsewhere in the world is set to affect emerging countries like India in many ways, especially when they are excluded from preferential trading arrangements.
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    India's Coal supply security: pushing iImports at the expense of domestic reforms?

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    Coal India Ltd. (CIL) has not been able to supply the committed quantity of coal to the power producers, forcing them to source coal from other countries. Apart from this, many coal blocks which should have been in operation by now are yet to come on-stream. If these blocks come into operation, India’s coal imports would reduce substantially.
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    Transportation cost and trade competitiveness: empirical evidence from India

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    India has been witnessing a sharp rise in merchandise trade and showing greater trade interdependence on a large variety of goods, particularly in intermediate and capital goods. However, higher transportation costs continue to impede India’s trade. Costlier transportation prohibits trade in India and taxes the trade in the way tariff does.

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