This paper examines the trends, the research and studies done globally on open innovation and open business models in the field of Telecommunication Services. These include value added services pertaining to communications, online, web and media, mobile, triple/quad play, etc. on both consumer...

RICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) has emerged as a role model for the developing countries at large by building a sustainable dialogue on major policy issues. The ongoing stalemate at the Doha Round of Discussions under WTO is creating a major hurdle for the developing countries....

The welfare effect under GTAP model computes a money metric equivalent of the utility change. This is calculated by measuring ‘equivalent variation’ (EV) which summarizes the regional welfare changes resulting from any policy shock and is given in dollar values (US $ million). In GTAP, this...

Over the last decade cross-country trade and investment flows have increased considerably, which is often linked to climate change concerns. The present analysis attempts to understand the influence of trade and investment flows on CO2 emissions through panel data model estimation for a set of...

This paper evaluates India’s export opportunities to China as well as market access constraints faced by Indian firms in China at the disaggregated product level. Our main conclusions include: By 2015, it is expected that average wages in China would rise by 80% thereby loosing competitiveness...

This paper examines the trends, the research and studies done globally on open innovation and open business models in the field of Telecommunication Services. These include value added services pertaining to communications, online, web and media, mobile, triple/quad play, etc. on both consumer...

A careful assessment of intra-regional and extra-regional ASEAN trade volumes from 1970 to 2010 reveals that there has been no significant change during the pre- and post-AFTA era. However, researchers working on the effectiveness of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement have consistently reported...

: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship of apparel sourcing issues and logistics performance variables of apparel exports from India. Cross sectional data has been collected and correlation technique is used to analyze the data set from a pilot study conducted amongst...

Friedman’s hypothesis regarding the relationship between inflation, inflation uncertainty and output growth states that full employment policy objective of the government tends to increase the rate of inflation which increases the uncertainty about the future course of inflation. Increase in...

The positive influence of subsidies on merchandise exports is well known from trade theory literature. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship remains ambiguous. The current study conducts a panel data empirical analysis over 1990–2011 for 140 countries to understand the...