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| India Bets on Technology
Niches |
Sophie Chauvin
Françoise Lemoine |
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| Despite the reforms undertaken
in the early 1990s, India still remains one of Asia’s most closed economies.
Its narrow manufacturing sector, along with a geographical location that has sidelined
it from the dynamic processes of regional integration, have hardly favoured the
evolution of its trade specialisations. Traditional exports in food and textiles
run up against protectionism in international markets, but also suffer from a
lack of competitiveness. The development of new sectors with high levels of human
capital intensity is less stifled by domestic constraints. It also allows India
to enter market niches in which world demand is dynamic, and in which if avoids
head-on competition with China, in labour-intensive industries. As India has become
the world’s largest exporter of IT services and generic drugs its image for
international investors is changing. |
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in the World Economy: Traditional Specialisations and Technology Niches, Working
Paper n° 03-09, August 2003 |
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