Since the early 1990s, the number of Regional Trade Agreements has increased considerably across continents. This is resulting into increasing regional integration with substantial importance being given to cross-border connectivity development. India, a late subscriber of active RTA strategy,...

This paper argues that IBSA( India, Brazil, South Africa) as opposed to IBSAC (with China) is a far more coherent group when it comes to WTO negotiations as its interests coincide given the agenda that seeks to free trade asymmetrically with the developed countries having to concede more on...

The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD level have been introduced in India in recent past. However, the HD achievements still vary...

ASEAN and China share a complex relationship in economic terms; while they collaborate in several spheres, conflict of interests is not uncommon either. The proposal for an ASEAN–China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) was floated in 2000, and the agreements covering merchandise trade,...

Since the initiation of economic reforms in 1991, ‘Look East Policy’ has been a major component of India’s trade diplomacy. During the first decade after inception of WTO, India relied heavily on the multilateral trade reforms for securing export growth, but slow progress of...

China and India, in spite of being signatory members of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1948), witnessed a dissimilar experience in the arena of multilateral negotiations and trade. China lost its membership after the withdrawal of Taiwan from GATT in 1950, but gained steady access...

A number of developed as well as developing countries provide subsidies to domestic players, leading to overproduction and over-exploitation of natural resources, which pose a serious threat to environmental sustainability. The analysis in this article attempts to understand the role of...

It is argued in the existing literature that foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow positively influences economic growth through technology diffusion, human capital formation, etc., though a section of the literature do not find empirical support for this contention. Since the initiation of the...

The waves of globalisation in the past decades have increased the cross-country trade and investment flows, which also raise serious concerns over environmental sustainability and climate change owing to the following three effects. First, through scale effect the growing output and exports of...

Property rights always create a limited monopoly of the right holder. Intellectual property rights (IPR) came into existence in order to acknowledge and encourage creativity, for example, literary works, although in early days the provision was misused as a government policy. In the subsequent...