22 September, 2025Trump’s tariffs and India’s strategic response
India-US trade relations have taken a sudden and sharp turn for the worse, with the US imposing a 50% tariff rate on imports from India. In this post, Gulati, Rao and Suntwal highlight that the impact...
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Ashok Gulati Sulakshana Rao Tanay Suntwal 
25 August, 2025
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Trends in India’s regional export diversification
The recent disruptions in global trade point to the emergence of a ‘new normal’, where flows of goods are vulnerable to factors such as conflicts, uncertain tariffs, and export restrictions. In th...
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Sharmila Kantha
- 04 July, 2025
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India’s new FTAs: Strategic shift to developed economies
The recently concluded India-UK Free Trade Agreement is a part of a wider shift in India’s global economic strategy, which has involved a renewed focus on FTAs with developed countries. In this post...
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Sharmila Kantha
- 23 May, 2025
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Global value chain participation and intermediate export sophistication
While the dominance of global value chains (GVCs) in production processes is a widely accepted fact, the impact of participation in GVCs is still being explored. Using data from a sample of 100 nation...
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Neha Betai Rupa Chanda
- 26 July, 2021
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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...
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Srijan Shukla
- 07 July, 2021
- Perspectives
Leveraging global supply chains to fight Covid-19
When the second wave of Covid-19 hit India, the health catastrophe was compounded by shortages of oxygen, medical equipment, and life-saving drugs. In this post, C Veeramani and Anwesha Basu contend t...
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Anwesha Basu C. Veeramani
- 17 June, 2021
- Perspectives
Boosting India’s capital goods’ exports
Union budget 2021-22 has proposed a sharp 34.5% hike in capital expenditure, which is expected to boost the capital goods sector. While the sector has grown since liberalisation, its share in the glob...
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Parthapratim Pal Swathysree S S
- 10 February, 2021
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Import competition, formalisation, and role of contract workers
Given the recent expansion in the participation of developing countries in global trade, it is important to understand the role of trade in the composition of employment in these countries. Analysing ...
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Pavel Chakraborty Rahul Singh Vidhya Soundararajan
- 27 January, 2021
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Trade disruption, industrialisation, and how the sun set on British rule in India
It is argued that by keeping India open to imports of cheap British manufactures, the imperial power made it excessively difficult for Indian industry to emerge in the early 20th century. This article...
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Roberto Bonfatti Björn Brey
- 18 May, 2020
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Inequality and trade: Simulation evidence for 54 developing nations
Questions about who benefits from free trade – and at what cost – have resurfaced as part of the backlash against globalisation. This article uses data from 54 low- and middle-income countries to ...
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Erhan Artuc Guido Porto Bob Rijkers
- 05 March, 2020
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Should India reconsider participating in e-commerce negotiations at the WTO ?
India is planning to bring about a national e-commerce policy. However, the government has decided to stay away from negotiations at the World Trade Organization platform to set international e-commer...
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Rahul Prakash Neeti Shikha
- 09 December, 2019
- Perspectives
RCEP trade agreement: The road not taken?
Prime Minister Modi recently announced that India would not be joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement between Southeast Asian Nations and its free-trading partners. I...
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Sarthak Agrawal Madhav Malhotra
- 15 November, 2019
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Exports, global production sharing, and job creation in India
Is it in the interest of a country to promote strong local linkages for its domestic industries or to participate in global production sharing activities wherein linkages are globally dispersed? This ...
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Garima Dhir C. Veeramani
- 09 October, 2019
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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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Saon Ray
- 28 August, 2019
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The new globalisation and income inequality
Trade in intermediates (or ‘unbundling of production') and trade in capital have become increasingly important in last 25 years. This article shows that trade in intermediates generates a reallocati...
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Sergi Basco Marti Mestieri
- 19 June, 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
- Perspectives
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
- Perspectives
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...
- Saon Ray
- 28 August, 2019
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