Economic and Environmental Policy Issues in Indian Textile and Apparel Industries

ISBN-13: 9783319623429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 65 str.

Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan

Opis

This book comprehensively reviews, as well as analyzes, various aspects related to the Indian textile and apparel industries.

Spis treści

History of Indian Textile Industry.- Description of India’s Textile and Apparel Sector.- Structure of India’s Textile and Apparel Sector.- Environmental Issues.

O autorze

Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan is an economist with three affiliations: first, School of Environmental and Forestry Sciences, University of Washington Seattle; second, Mckinsey Global Institute; third, Infinite Sum Modelling Inc. He was working at the Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue Univeristy on the construction of GTAP database and model, its documentation, teaching courses and conducting research on various economic issues, particularly on international trade and industry-related issues using CGE and econometric models. His other areas of interests include Labour Economics, Productivity Analysis, Demand Analysis, Energy, Health and Environmental Economics. He holds a PhD from IGIDR (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Mumbai.

His Dissertation was on "Some Economic Issues in Indian Textile Sector". Badri also holds a B.Tech. in Textile Technology and has a brief industrial experience as a production manager in a garment export firm in India. He participated in a Meeting with the Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany in 2004. He has many publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals and books. He has also presented many of his research papers in national and international conferences.