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

ISBN-13: 9780367731373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 250 str.

Smitha Francis

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

 

O autorze

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.