Industrial Policy Challenges for India - Global Value Chains and Free Trade Agreements

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Industrial Policy: Evolution of the Discourse 3. Global Value Chains: Heightening the Industrial Policy Imperative 4. Liberalisation Sans Industrial Policy: The Experience of Indian Electronics Industry 5. Industrial Policy Constraints in Indian FTAs 6. Conclusion. Bibliography

About the author

Smitha Francis is Consultant with the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi, India. Her research interests cover the interfaces between different processes of trade and FDI liberalisation, industrial policy, digital transformations, and manufacturing sector development. Previously, she has worked at Economic Research Foundation (ERF), New Delhi, the Secretariat for International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) and Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi. She has also served as a Visiting Faculty member at the South Asian University, New Delhi and Ambedkar University Delhi. In addition, she has been a consultant in projects sponsored by the Department of Commerce, Government of India; Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR); Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Brussels; Centre for WTO Studies, New Delhi; Frederick S. Pardee Centre for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University; UN OHCHR and UNICEF.

Summary

This book looks at debates on global value chains (GVCs) and free trade agreements (FTAs) as springboards for industrial development in developing countries, especially India. It connects the outcomes in GVC-led industrial restructuring and upgrading to industrial policy choices in trade and FDI liberalisation, in particular those through FTAs.

Product details

• Authors: Smitha Francis, Smitha (Consultant Francis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367731373
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73137-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Critical Political Economy of South Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Commercial Policy, India, trade agreements, International Economics, Economics of industrial organisation, Industry & industrial studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Industry and industrial studies, Economics of industrial organization, Public international law: economic and trade