Malini L. Tantri

• PhD
• Institute for Social and Economic Change

The pollution haven hypothesis is studied from a bilateral trade perspective in this study, taking the reference of two Asian giants, namely, India and China. For this purpose, trade in pollution-intensive industries is analysed using data collected from the United Nations Comtrade dataset based on Standard Industrial Trade Classification codes for...

This article compares China and India, the two biggest emerging market economies in the world, with respect to their trade in pollution-intensive industries and tries to discuss the policy environment supporting such growth. The analysis is carried out for 13 categories of pollution-intensive products based on the Standard International Trade Class...

This article compares China and India, the two biggest emerging market economies in the world, with respect to their trade in pollution-intensive industries and tries to discuss the policy environment supporting such growth. The analysis is carried out for 13 categories of pollution-intensive products based on the Standard International Trade Class...

Preet S. Aulakh and Raveendra Chittoor, Coping with Global Institutional Change: A Tale of India’s Textile and Pharmaceutical Industries. Cambridge University Press, 2022, 230 pp., ₹950. ISBN: 9781009176330 (Hardback).

This article explains India’s trade from an environmental perspective. Besides explaining trends and patterns of trade in pollution-intensive products, we investigate India’s comparative advantage in these products and discuss the emerging issues. The exercise based on the UN Comtrade dataset reveals that much of India’s exports happen under this c...

The Novel Coronavirus has hardly left any corner of the society and economy untouched. Apparently, response to the pandemic across the globe and its impact on society and economy are clearly dependent on the pre-existing social economic and cultural setup of the nation. Among others, the fear of the pandemic reversing the state of human security ac...

The article critically revisits the Plantations Labour Act (1951) and its amendments and discusses threads of anomalies inherent in its making over the years. While doing so, it discusses conflicts about the domain of plantation sector, institutional exclusion and components of social costs. It explores alternative policy options to reduce social w...

Food security is a major area of concern for BRICS economies, as they are home to a combined population of almost three billion people and the largest share of undernourished people in the world. In this context, this paper, while making use of available secondary data, outlines the current state of food security among BRICS economies and the possi...

The theoretical underpinnings of trade facilitation (TF) would suggest a ‘balanced growth’ approach to expedite trade. However, taking the example of China and India, in this article, we explore how selective measures are capable of addressing issues related to TF. Both the economies offer very innovative interventions to address issues correspondi...

This book systematically evaluates the trajectories of SEZs policymaking in India and its performance. The findings of the study are the result of a detailed fieldwork conducted by the author in India and China at different points in time. Exploring China’s SEZs policy and performance the book discusses whether the Indian policymakers were aware of...

This paper analyzes the fiscal implications of special economic zones (SEZs) on the government exchequer. The analysis is based on aggregating data collected from seven conventional SEZs and taking 1990-1991 to 2007-2008 as the reference period. The exercise reveals that the government has spent huge sums of money to play the role of a trade facili...

By exploring the role of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in China’s integration with the world economy, we also investigate the underlying challenges faced by the economy. This analysis suggests that SEZs enabled the Chinese economy to trigger its growth standards and to achieve its ambition of integrating with the world economy without compromising...

In this paper, the efficiency of seven conventional Special Economic Zones in India is analyzed, by adopting a stochastic production frontier technique, for the period between 1986–1987 and 2007–2008.Results indicate that although the efficiency scores of these enclaves have improved over the years, specifically with the introduction of the SEZ pol...

Though India’s SEZ policy owes its conceptual base to the successful Chinese SEZs’ experience, hardly any attempt has been made to explain what made the latter so successful. In this article, we trace this phenomenal success to the well articulated and executed SEZ policy in China. Apart from this, the success of SEZs in China is also attributed to...

Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of recent India's Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policy over Export Processing Zone structure is analysed in this article by aggregating data of seven conventional SEZs from 1986–1987 to 2007–2008. The study reveals that introduction of SEZs in place of its predecessor, the Export Processing Zone, is having a si...

The performance of seven conventional Indian special economic zones (SEZs) at the disaggregate level is analysed within the framework of the zone-trade performance index, for the period between 1986–87 and 2007–08. The analysis reveals variations in performance across zones as well as within the zones over the reference period. The variations in pe...

Critics of the government's special economic zone policy fear that the incentives offered to SEZ units may lead to an increased demand for imports without an equivalent increase in exports. This article analyses the trends in the import intensity of exports of seven conventional SEZS from 1986-87 to 2007-08. Changes in the sectoral composition of e...

Not many authors have analysed the economic history of Karnataka and rarely do we find any systematic account of agriculture in the available historical material. Dr. Francis Buchanan's travelogue provides an excellent material for this. Dr. Buchanan travelled through the Mysore State after the fall of Tippu Sultan with a mandate from the British G...

The Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) is engaged in interdisciplinary research in analytical and applied areas of the social sciences, encompassing diverse aspects of development. ISEC works with central, state and local governments as well as international agencies by undertaking sy...

The Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) is engaged in interdisciplinary research in analytical and applied areas of the social sciences, encompassing diverse aspects of development. ISEC works with central, state and local governments as well as international agencies by undertaking sy...

The Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) is engaged in interdisciplinary research in analytical and applied areas of the social sciences, encompassing diverse aspects of development. ISEC works with central, state and local governments as well as international agencies by undertaking sy...

The Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) is engaged in interdisciplinary research in analytical and applied areas of the social sciences, encompassing diverse aspects of development. ISEC works with central, state and local governments as well as international agencies by undertaking sy...