Description
This graduate textbook brings together many of the issues that are considered staple reading for a course in trade and development: trade and labour market, trade and public economics, topics in the theory of the second best, foreign aid, factor mobility, regional and global welfare, and TRIPs. Rajat Acharyya is Professor of Economics, and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has taught international economics at various institutes and universities in India and abroad for over two decades and has published extensively in the area. He received the EXIM Bank International Trade Research Award in 1997, the Global Development Network (Washington D.C.) Research Medal in 2003, and the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal Award in 2006. He has held visiting positions at Rochester University (USA), University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) and Utrecht School of Economics (The Netherlands). His research focuses on international trade, product quality and growth, regional trading blocs, and TRIPS and innovation in health care markets. ; Saibal Kar is Associate Professor of Economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). He is a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn. He was a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Found Introduction; 1 International Trade and Development Paradigms; 2 Problems of Trade in Primary Commodities; 3 Trade, Factors of Production and Growth; 4 Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Firms; 5 International Labour Mobility and Welfare; 6 Information, Labour Migration, and Occupation; 7 Trade, Foreign Aid, and Welfare; 8 Trade, Poverty, and Readjustments; 9 Regional Trading Arrangements as Development Strategy; 10 TRIPS, Product Standards and the Developing Economies; 11 International Outsourcing, Off-shoring and Industrialization Strategies; 12 Contagion of Crisis and Concluding Remarks
