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    Domestic Value addition and Foreign Content: An Analysis of India’s Exports from 1995 to 2011

    Goldar, Bishwanath; Das, Deb Kusum; Sengupta, Sreerupa; Das, Pilu Chandra | January 2017
    Abstract
    India’s merchandise trade has been growing in importance in recent years with increases in share in world exports and imports (Economic Survey, 2013-14). However with fragmentation of production process across countries, higher exports can no longer be linked to higher production as imports of intermediate products which are used in exports also increase. Against this background, it is very important to understand the contribution made to a product within the confines of the geographic boundaries of that economy. The present study estimates and analyzes the import content in Indian exports at a disaggregated industry level using the Hummel et al. (2001) approach used in this strand of empirical literature, as for instance applied by Koopmans, Wang and Wei (2008). The analysis highlights several interesting patterns. First, for India’s exports, the import content in exports increased steadily from about 11 percent to about 22 percent in the time period 1995 to 2011. The rise in import content was relatively greater for merchandize exports from about 11 percent in 1995 to about 26 percent in 2011. In services exports, by contrast, the foreign value added content is relatively low and the increase has been rather modest. Second, at an individual commodity level (based on Input-output table classification), the decline in domestic value added content was associated with a simultaneous increase in foreign value added share for a majority of the commodities, indicating the pervasiveness of international fragmentation. Finally, a comparison of foreign value added share in aggregate exports with other emerging economies shows that in terms of degree of integration in global value chains, India lags behind most important emerging economies – Taiwan, Korea, Philippines ,Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and China.
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    Goldar, Bishwanath; Das, Deb Kusum; Sengupta, Sreerupa; Das, Pilu Chandra. 2017. Domestic Value addition and Foreign Content: An Analysis of India’s Exports from 1995 to 2011. © Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7104.
    Keywords
    Economic planning
    Economic structure
    Growth policy
    Trade relations
    Trade policy
    Economic development
    Trade Facilitation
    Trade
    Economic integration
    Regional Economic Integration
    Free Trade
    Trade Agreements
    Trade Policy
    Economic Development
    Economics
    International Economics
    Intraregional Trade
    Regional economics
    Economic forecasting
    Economic development projects
    Success in business
    Business
    Free trade
    Business
    Economics
    Communication in economic development
    Restraint of trade
    International economic integration
    Trade blocs
    East-West
    Foreign trade and employment
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    Das, Deb Kusum
    Sengupta, Sreerupa
    Das, Pilu Chandra
    Theme
    Trade
    Economics

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