Though conventional international economic wisdom holds China's hardware and India's software industries to be equipotential, little attempt has been made to compare their information industries in an overarching dynamic framework. By using a schema which links intellectual to financial value...

The Information Technology Agreement (ITA), a pluri-lateral trade agreement, seeks to accelerate and deepen the reduction of trade barriers for the critically important information and communication technology (ICT) industry. ITA thus provides an interesting case study of how tariff reduction...

Growth in South Asia has not resulted in structural transformation and increase of productive capacities. This paper presents a methodology to identify the opportunities for countries in South Asia to build their productive capacities and promote structural transformation through the emulation...

This paper combines insights from law and economics to create a hybrid model that examines the U-shaped relationship between the strength of a country’s IPR protections and its level of economic development over time. This hybrid model is used to analyze whether implementing different levels...

How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...

In the last decade the Indian auto industry has shown increasing levels of technological sophistication and significant growth. The Indian auto industry consists of local firms with indigenous design and development capability, well established global brands and has marketing presence in Indian...

The paper is a study of innovation in India, but the emphasis is on one of the most important actors of innovation, i.e. the government. Today, innovation has become a household name for both public and private entities. Whether it is product or service, we all want a cost effective solution,...

The outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China and the lockdown that followed had disrupted the supply of APIs and their intermediates and starting materials to India, leading to a temporary restriction on export of certain medicines from India. The PLI scheme that was announced subsequently aimed at...