productivity, which can be attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms …Recent trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ( "stealing" ) in driving … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However …

and clothing firms in both countries corroborate these findings. Reforms in trade policy (including rules of origin …), trade facilitation, trade-related standards, and institutions could help both countries better take advantage of value chain …

studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and … findings suggest that bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements increase the likelihood of foreign direct … potential destination countries. Moreover, trade and investment agreements appear to interact differently with distance. By …

ramp up its exports, including products that would broaden trade complementarity and enhance intra-industry trade, and … improve its trade standards and trade-handling capacity. A bilateral Free Trade Agreement would lift Bangladesh's exports to … numbers, based on existing trade patterns, represent a lower bound of the potential increase in Bangladesh's exports arising …

contiguous districts of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh in the northeast of the subcontinent to measure the degrees of trade … households' production and consumption suggest the potential for relatively large gains from deeper trade integration … institutions such as an organized auction and decent physical and legal infrastructure. However, districts alike in geography but …

This paper examines a puzzle in the political economy of infrastructure in India -- the co-existence of relatively low … shares of capital spending in public budgets alongside evidence of large demand for village infrastructure from poor voters …. It argues that this pattern is due to infrastructure projects being used at the margin for political rent-seeking, while …

data from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector … with stronger initial financial development, suggesting that although financing responds to large infrastructure …

This paper explores the economic implications of a potential free trade agreement between India and the United States … cuts for services. The overall impacts are likely to be positive for the United States and India. While gains from trade … creation are offset by trade diversion on the import side, both countries appear to gain from improved access on the export …