The focus of this volume is on international trade, economic development, and the strategic analysis of technology transfer from a developing country's perspective, especially of relevance to India. The author showcases his work using simple models and addresses the topics that have influenced the literature mainly in the last three decades. The unifying theme in the volume has two essential aspects: relating each paper in terms of its exact theoretical contribution and its relevance from the perspective of an open developing economy. The collection of essays in this volume, published over the last twenty years, are related to international trade, economic development and the strategic analysis of technology transfer from a developing country's perspective, especially India. The volume is divided into six broad sections related to: pattern of trade and related issues; trade and income distribution; trade, migration, and unemployment; protectionism, foreign capital, and welfare; international technology transfer; and international joint ventures and strategic foreign investment. Lucid in presentation, with a simple framework, the book will help the current and future generation of students, teachers, and researchers in the developing world to appreciate the strength of simple theoretical models in discussing complex problems that they can identify as their own.
List of Tables and Figures
I Pattern of Trade and Related Issues
1 Three Faces of Factor Intensities by Sugata Marjit and R. W. Jones and H. Beladi 29
2 Trade in Intermediates and the Colonial Pattern of Trade 38
3 The Role of International Fragmentation in the Development Process by Sugata Marjit and R. W. Jones
4 Technology for Sale by Sugata Marjit and H. Beladi and R. W. Jones 60
II Trade and Income Distribution
5 A Simple Production Model with Stolper-Samuelson Property by Sugata Marjit and R. W. Jones 75
6 The Stopler-Samuelson Theorem in a Wage-Differential Framework by Sugata Marjit and H. Beladi 79
7 Trade and Wage Gap in Developing Countries: The Role of the Informal Sector by Sugata Marjit and U. Broll and S. Sengupta 86
8 Trade and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries by Sugata Marjit and H. Beladi and A. Chakrabarti 106
9 Emigration and Wage Inequality by Sugata Marjit and S. Kar 122
10 Income Distribution and the Contractionary Effect of Protection: A Theoretical Analysis by Sugata Marjit and T. Kabiraj 128
III Trade, Migration, and Unemployment
11 Agro-based Industry and Rural-Urban Migration: A Case for an Urban Employment Subsidy 139
12 An Analysis of Rural-Urban Migration and Protection by Sugata Marjit and H. Beladi 145
13 Targeting Sectors for Foreign Capital Inflow in a Small Developing Economy by Sugata Marjit and U. Broll and S. Mitra 157
14 Possibility or Impossibility of Paradoxes in Small Economy Harres-Todan Models - A Unifying Analysis by Sugata Marjit and H. Beladi 165
IV Protectionism, Foreign Capital, and Welfare
15 Foreign Capital and Protectionism by Sugata Marjit and H. Beladi