External dimensions of an emerging economy, India [electronic resource] : essays in honour of Sunanda Sen / edited by Byasdeb Dasgupta.
This book offers an analysis of external dimensions of an emerging economy, India, in the backdrop of neoliberal globalisation. External dimensions of Indian economy signify her inter-relation with the rest of the world in terms of trade and financial flows and how that affects the development proce...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1. India, the Great Depression and Britain's demise as world capitalist leader; Introduction; The dependence of the international payments pattern on colonial and, in particular, on India's export earnings; Modifying the relation between budgetary, trade and savings-investment balances to take account of transfers from colonies to the metropolis.
- The sharply declining magnitude of export earnings of the Indian sub-continent owing to agricultural depressionNotes; References; 2. Illegal flows in India's BOP accounts: their components and impact on the economy; Introduction; Illegal flows of capital and flight of capital; Definitional aspect; Estimates of illegal financial flows and flight of capital: a critique; Links with the black economy in the country; Rates of return on illegal funds and the white economy; Illegal flows in India's BOP; Illegal flows and the underlying mechanisms.
- The role of tax havens and 'Swiss banks' in flight of capitalIllegal flows and flight of capital; Policy implications; Macroeconomic impact of illegal flows; Conclusion; References; 3. Some aspects of external dimensions of the Indian economy in the age of globalisation; Degree of openness of the Indian economy; Some features of India's balance of payments in the post-reform period; Foreign capital flows in India during the reform period; Net transfers of financial resources from India during the reform period; Some concerns regarding India's economic reforms; Conclusion; Notes; References.
- 4. Macroeconomic policy within cycles of international capital flows: the Indian experienceCycles in international capital flows; Capital flows and external balances of India; External balances and the macroeconomic policy; Empirical evidence on India; Interest rate and capital flows; Central Bank intervention, reserve accumulation and monetary-policy independence; Capital flows, currency appreciation and trade balance; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. Multinationals and monopolies: the pharmaceutical industry in India after TRIPS; Background; Rising MNC dominance.
- Rising imports of finished formulationsMarket structure and prices of patented products; Conclusions; Notes; References; 6. Regional economic integration: new context and analytical constructs; Introduction; Dynamism in RTAs; Trade integration in different RTAs; Deepening of RTAs; Analytical construct; Trade flows
- trade creation and trade diversion; Foreign direct investment; RTAs and technology; Static and dynamic effects of RTAs; Rules of origin; Growth and income convergence; Intra-industry trade (IIT); RTAs and peace; RTAs
- some critical insights.