1st Edition

Trade Policy, Inequality and Performance in Indian Manufacturing

By Kunal Sen Copyright 2009
192 Pages 45 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The relationship between trade policy and economic performance is one of the oldest controversies in economic development. In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in the debate on the implications of trade reforms for productivity growth and domestic pricing behaviour due in part to the current phase of wide-spread trade liberalisation in developing countries and in part to... Read more
1 Trade policy, inequality and performance – the key analytical issues 2 Trade policy in India 3 Growth and structural change in Indian manufacturing, 1975–99 4 Trade policy and economic growth 5 Trade policy, productivity and prices 6 International trade and employment 7 Trade policy and wage inequality 8 Trade policy and regional inequality 9 Conclusion

Biography

Kunal Sen is Professor of Development Economics and Policy at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK. He specialises in macroeconomics and international trade, with over a decade of experience in research on economic reforms in India.