Trade, Investment and Economic Growth, 1st ed. 2021 Issues for India and Emerging Economies

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Title of the Paper

Authors

Introduction by the Editors

Pooja Lakhanpal, Jaydeep Mukherjee, Biswajit Nag and Divya Tuteja

I) International Trade: Empirical and Policy Issues

Chapter 1

Kanika Pathania (Ph.D. Scholar, Delhi School of Economics)

Chapter 2

Does Past Performance in Home Market Affect Export Participation of New Exporters? Evidence from Indian Firms

1. Priyanta Ghosh (Ph.D. Student, Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University)                                              2. Aparna Sawhney (Professor, Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Chapter 3

A Panel Data Analysis of Indo-Africa Trade: A Gravity Model Approach

1. Vaishnavi Sharma (Research Scholar, IGIDR, Mumbai)                                         2. Akhilesh Mishra (Associate Professor, SD (PG) College, Ghaziabad)

The Validity of J-Curve: India versus BRICS Countries: A Panel cointegration Approach

Ganapati Mendali (Guest Faculty, Panchayat College, Odisha)

Chapter 5

Trade Costs Between India and ASEAN: A Gravity Framework

1. Ishita Ghosh (Assistant Professor, Symbiosis School of Economics, A Department of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune)                    2. Divya Nagaraj (MSc Economics (2016-18), Symbiosis School of Economics, A Department of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune)

II) Foreign Capital Flows and Issues in Finance

Chapter 6

Tryst with Financial Inclusion: Understanding the role of Digital Technology, Governance and Institutions in BRICS Nations

1. Aishwarya Nagpal (Senior Research Scholar, FMS, Delhi)                                2. Megha Jain (Senior Research Scholar, FMS, Delhi)

Chapter 7

Macroeconomic Factors Affecting FDI Inflows into Emerging Economies – A Panel Study

1. Ishita Ghoshal (Assistant Professor, Fergusson College, Pune)                        2. Saylee Jog (Assistant Professor, Fergusson College, Pune)                        3. Uday Sinha (Assistant Professor, Fergusson College, Pune)                          4. Ishita Ghosh (Assistant Professor, Symbiosis International Deemed University, Pune)

Chapter 8

The Pattern of Inbound Foreign Direct Investment into India

1. Aparna Sawhney (Professor, Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University)                                              2. Rashmi Rastogi (Sir Ratan Tata (Jr.) Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi)

Sustainability of India’s Current Account Deficit: Role of Remittance Inflows and Software Services Exports

Aneesha Chitgupi (PhD Scholar, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru)

Chapter 10

Green-field versus Merger and Acquisition: Role of FDI on Economic Growth in South Asia

1. Saswata Chaudhury (Fellow in TERI, New Delhi)                                                                                          2. Nitya Nanda (Associate Director, TERI, New Delhi)                                                              3. Bhawna Tyagi (Senior Officer, IL & FS, New Delhi)

Chapter 11

Risk Modelling by Coherent Measure Using Family of Generalized Hyperbolic Distributions

P. K. Das (Professor, IIFT Kolkata)

III) Trade and Development Interface: Implications for India and Emerging Economies

Trade Liberalisation and Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria: The Complimentary Role of Institutions

1. Olarinde O. Muftau (Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria)                                                             2. A.A. Bello (Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria)

Chapter 13

1. Manoj Pant (Director, IIFT)                      2. Nidhi Dhamija (Assistant Professor, Hindu College, University of Delhi)

Chapter 14

India’s Trade Sensitive Employment: A Comprehensive Firm-level Analysis

1. Biswajit Nag (Professor, IIFT, New Delhi)    

2. Saloni Khurana (Research Associate, IIFT, New Delhi)

Chapter 15

A Panel Study on Fiscal Policy and Gender Inequality: Efficacy of Gender Budgeting in Asia Pacific Countries

Pradeep Kumar Panda (Doctoral Scholar, IGNOU, New Delhi)

Chapter 16

An Analysis of Labour Intensive Exports to United States: Unlocking India’s Potential

Vijaya Katti (Professor, IIFT, New Delhi)

IV) Analysis of Sector level Growth and Development in India

Chapter 17

Is ‘MAKE IN INDIA’ a success? A Review from the Electronics Sector in India

1. Sanchita Roy Chowdhury (Doctoral Student, IIM Indore)                                    2. Siddhartha K. Rastogi (Associate Professor, IIM Indore)

Chapter 18

Examining Causal Relation between Financial Inclusion and Telecommunication with Special Reference to Kerala and Bihar using SEM

1. Taufeeque Ahmad Siddiqui (Assistant Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)                                                          2. Kashif Iqbal Siddiqui (Research Scholar, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)

Chapter 19

Impact of Macro Economic Variables and Bank Specific Elements on Banking Sector in India

1. Kanika Dhingra (Research Scholar, IIFT, Delhi)                                                       2. Sheeba Kapil (Professor, IIFT, Delhi)

Chapter 20

Environmental Efficiency and Trade theory: Evidence from Indian Metal Sector

1. Mousami Prasad (Research Associate, IIT Bombay)                                                     2. Trupti Mishra (Associate Professor, IIT Bombay)

Chapter 21

Prospects for Air Services in Indonesia under Modified General Agreement on Trade in Services: India-China Dimension

1. Anil K Kanungo (Professor, Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM), Delhi)                                                          2. Abhishek Jha (PhD scholar, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Pooja Lakhanpal is Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. She obtained her PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 2000. Dr. Lakhanpal has more than 27 years of work experience in both industry and academics. She has worked in the corporate sector with reputed firms like Tata Consultancy Services, Drshti Strategic Research Services, AC Nielsen and Silverline Industries amongst others, in domain areas of Strategic Consulting and Business Research. She has also been associated with leading Indian corporates like Reliance Industries, Godrej, M&M and globally reputed firms like Unilever, P&G, Samsung, Toyota, Bayer, J&J, Kellogg’s, BNP Paribas to name a few. Dr. Lakhanpal has also worked with various PSEs, Ministries, State Governments and Export Promotion Organisations. She was also a recipient of National Education Leadership Awards “Best Teacher in Human Resource Management” in July 2016 and was awarded “Best Professor in Human Resource Management” by World HRD Congress in February 2019. Her work was awarded “Best Paper” in the 5th International Conference on Social Sciences held in September 2018 at Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her research interests include sustainable business practices, business excellence & organisational transformation, corporate social responsibility, international business negotiations, human resource management etc.

Jaydeep Mukherjee is Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. He was a Gold Medallist in Economics from Jadavpur University both at the undergraduate (Bachelors) and postgraduate (Masters) levels and was awarded PhD from the same instiution in 2006. He has around 18 years of teaching and research experience and has completed more than 15 funded research projects sponsored by reputed organizations in India and abroad, namely, International Finance Corporation (IFC) under World Bank, DFID-UK, PwC, Reserve Bank of In

Includes rigorous econometrics encompassing state-of-the-art techniques such as gravity models, panel cointegration, generalized hyperbolic distributions, SEM, FMOLS and Probit models

Focuses on empirical applications in economics

Highlights lessons learnt from the trade-capital flows-growth experience of emerging economies