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A textbook on international economics, this title combines the contemporary research and perspectives on the pedagogy with strong theoretical underpinnings. Designed according to the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students of international economics in India, this title combines the two parts of the course, international finance and international trade. Focussing on both theory and policy imperatives, providing ample case studies and examples, this book also provides advance topics for further research, besides detailed exercises for practice.

This volume offers advanced and contemporary readings in international trade and economic development, constructed on various fundamental topics that define the realm of this subject. It offers systematic coverage of the relevant and state of the art research in trade and development. This includes detailed analysis of important sub-topics, such as, trade and the labour market, trade and public economics, topics in the theory of the second best, foreign aid, factor mobility, regional and global welfare, etc.

This book makes an analytical study of implications of the new set of non-tariff barriers that are forthcoming on the exports of the developing countries in the disguise of quality regulations and environmental standards. It argues that in the present era of globalization, with technological revolution in theWest raising the demand for skill-intensive, high value-addition and high-quality goods, export-led growth may not be a poverty-reducing strategy. TOC:Introduction.- Dimensions of Quality Problem in Developing Countries.- Theories of Quality Choice.- Income Distribution, Trade Policy and Export Quality.- Wage Policy, Standards and the Labour Market.- Inter-Linkage Between Skill Formation and Export Quality.- Dirty Exports and Environmental Standards

Given the increasing sensitivity of buyers in the richer countries towards quality of goods they consume, low-quality exports largely constrain export-growth of the developing countries. This element documents the attempts to estimate cross-country quality variations and reviews the demand and supply explanations for the low-quality phenomenon.

This book was written in honour of Professor Kalyan K. Sanyal, who was an excellent educator and renowned scholar in the field of international economics. One of his research papers co-authored with Ronald Jones, entitled "The Theory of Trade in Middle Products" and published in American Economic Review in 1982, was a seminal work in the field of international trade theory. This paper would go on to inspire many subsequent significant works by researchers across the globe on trade in intermediate goods. The larger impact of any paper, beyond the number of citations, lies in terms of the passion it sparks among younger researchers to pursue new questions. Measured by this yardstick, Sanyal's contribution in trade theory will undoubtedly be regarded as historic. After completing his Ph. D. at the University of Rochester he joined the Department of Economics at Calcutta University in the early 1980s and taught trade theory there for almost three decades. His insights, articulation and brilliance in teaching international economics have influenced and shaped the intellectual development of many of his students. After his sudden passing in February 2012, his students and colleagues organized a symposium in his honour at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University from April 19 to 20, 2012. This book, a small tribute to his intellect and contribution, has been a follow-up on that endeavour, and a collective effort of many people including his teachers, friends, colleagues and students. In a nutshell it discusses intermediation of various kinds with significant implications for market integration through trade and finance. That trade can generate many non-trade-service sector links has recently emerged as a topic of growing concern and can trace its lineage back to the idea of the middle product, a recurring concept in Prof. Sanyal's work

This book deals with the impact that international trade is likely to have on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in a typical developing economy. This is the first theoretical monograph on this particular issue which has already generated substantial debate and voluminous work for the developed countries. A unique feature of this work is that it tries to explain the possibility of rising inequality across trading nations and looks at the segmented labour markets of the poor economies. It makes convincing arguments that the standard general equilibrium models, the main workhorse of trade theory, can be given a creative facelift to address a number of critical and emerging issues in the area of trade and development