RIS is a New Delhi-based autonomous policy think-tank supported by the Government of India and devoted to trade and development issues. Its work programme focuses on policy research and capacity building on multilateral trade and financial negotiations, regional economic cooperation in Asia, South-South cooperation, new technologies and development, and strategic policy responses of developing ...

â  â â â â â  â  â  abstract: â  there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy or the share of the largest city in an urban system. in accordance to urban economic theories, there is an inverse-u shape relationship between urban concentration –urban primacy- and economic growth. that is, as economy grows, urban concen...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The impact of international trade on economic welfare 3. The interaction between international trade, the environment and sustainable development: traditional theoretical approaches 3.1. The impact of environmental quality on international trade 3.2. The impact of international trade and international trade policy on the environment and environmental policies 3.3. Im...

Over the last couple of decades, there has been a growing awareness in academic and policymaking circles regarding the importance of institutions for economic development. Institutions constitute the rules of the game in a society or, more precisely, the restrictions designed by members of a society to influence human interaction. Any transformation affecting these rules may clearly have a dire...

This paper develops a dynamic theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class con‡icts, and output growth performance over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional e¤ects of international trade, it …nds a prominent interaction between trade policy and the pattern of economic development, and also a signi…cant role for trade...

This paper formulates single and multi-sector-based models as a modeling system and protracts their evolutional paths in a manner that implements modeling synthesis in political demand side pursuant to orthodox model of international trade theory and anatomy of institutional economics, where it is emphasized that implication of disparity in both cross-sectional capacity of benefit expression an...

Trade Policy and North-South Migration Differences in the rate of population growth between developed and developing countries have potentially important implications for patterns of trade, migration, and the distribution of the gains from economic activity, both within and between nations. This paper focuses on migration-related effects. We offer a theoretical discussion of explicit theoretica...