The development of European policies on higher education in the last two decades has facilitated and encouraged (inward) non-European student mobility. This paper examines the issue of student mobility between two European host countries, namely Germany and France and a leading source country,...

Cross-border production sharing has intensified in recent decades, leading to the formation and spread of global value chains (GVC). Using a dataset containing more than 150 countries over 1990-2018, our paper tries to identify what drives backward GVC participation and forward GVC participation...

This paper examines the effects of tariff and non-tariff reductions on firm-level productivity and markups of large as well as Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India's manufacturing sector for the 1999-2009 period. We calculate input and final goods tariffs, effective rates of...

The importance of services inputs in enhancing manufacturing productivity and competitiveness has been well documented in the literature on global value chains and economic development. In this context, we investigate the nature and strength of the interlinkage between the services and...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Globalization and Regulation of Professional Services -- 2 - Trade in Legal Services: Past and Present Trends -- 3 - Regulatory Environment for Legal Services: A Cross-country Analysis -- 4 - Legal Services in India -- 5 - Political Economy...

In recent years, child labour has become increasingly linked to important global economic forces such as international trade. In the context of unilateral, regional, and multilateral trade policies, there have been discussions about subjecting products made with child labour to trade penalties...

This paper examines the significance of cross-border movement of service suppliers in the Indian economy, with specific focus on the information technology and health care sectors. It examines the nature of labor flows in these two sectors, the facilitating and constraining factors, the role of...

Much of international trade today happens through Global Value Chains (GVCs) wherein companies restructure and relocate their operations across geographies to leverage locational advantages and realize greater returns and efficiency in their production processes. Within these GVCs, there are...

Trade in health services is part of the larger phenomenon of globalization of services, wherein services have become increasingly tradeable through different modes of delivery and are playing a growing role in the growth and development process of economies. The provision of health services...