What is it about?
Significant change in India’s trading structure is associated with the fast growth of foreign trade. The composition of exports has undergone changes overtime, bearing a strong influence of factor endowments and technology in favour of both human capital intensive and technology intensive sectors.
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Why is it important?
This article comprehensively examines the growth and pattern of India’s merchandise exports during and following the financial crisis period (2007–08 to 2016–17)
Perspectives
Dynamism in labour-intensive manufacturing sector is vital to promote India’s exports of agricultural value-added products and enable more competitive at the world. Also, the development of new markets should be viewed as part of a wider effort to enlarge the India’s foreign trade.
Mr. Anirudha Barik
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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This page is a summary of: Post-crisis India’s Merchandise Export Growth: What Has Changed?, The Indian Economic Journal, December 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0019466219880132.
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