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Author: Murali Kallummal

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This author has written 7 articles

The Electronics Industry PLI Scheme: A missed opportunity?

  • January 22, 2021
  • Smitha Francis and Murali Kallummal
  • Trade and balance of payments
  • 0 Comments

Electronics was rightly picked as one of the focus sectors, when the production-linked incentive scheme (PLI) was launched with the aim of increasing India’s self-reliance in the manufacturing sector. The pandemic-related disruptions starkly revealed the perils of our digital economy’s…

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WTO is Using COVID for its Expansionist Free Trade Agenda

  • August 14, 2020
  • Murali Kallummal and Smitha Francis
  • Trade and balance of payments
  • 0 Comments

As the world is reeling under the deaths and exponential spread of the COVID pandemic, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is busy negotiating a free trade deal in electronic medical equipments. One of the five proposals made to the WTO's…

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RCEP and India’s ICT Import Dependence: What should be our priorities?

  • October 31, 2019
  • Smitha Francis and Murali Kallummal
  • Industry, Trade and balance of payments
  • 0 Comments

Given that ASEAN, South Korea and Japan are already India’s FTA partners, the ongoing Regional Comprehensive Economic Cooperation (RCEP) negotiations will primarily add China as well as Australia and New Zealand as new free trade partners for India. Australia and…

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