In this paper we examine the textiles and clothing export performance of India and China during the ATC and post-MFA period, with fous on the two leading consumer markets, viz, the European Union (EU) and USA. We evaluate ...

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was created in 1967 through the Bangkok Declaration. It is a group of ten nations, viz. Brunei, Cambodia, Indonasia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, ...

India Inc. showed a strong performance in the fiscal year 2002-03 and continued the tempo through the first quarter of 2003-04. While this is a reason to celebrate, many doubts linger about the sustainability of this trend ...

A stylised fact of India’s economic history since 1950 is that the rate of growth of the economy has accelerated periodically and across policy regimes. In this paper we present a theoretical framework that can generate ...

My central argument is: To bring down food inflation to the desired level, among others, concrete measures need to be undertaken to control and/or cut down the cost of production of food commodities.

This paper explores the idea that the decline of foodgrain production in Kerala originated in the decline of agriculture following migration to the Gulf. It is this event, it is argued that has stood in the way of land ...

Conventional wisdom and current practice in India appear to privilege total factor productivity (TFP), as a measure of productivity, rather than labour productivity. However, labour productivity is a measure of potential ...

One of the most striking conclusions reached in Prabhat Patnaik's recent book The Value of Money (2008) is that the world monetary system is still de facto a commodity money world, despite having broken all de jure links ...