Overview
- Evaluates India’s Special Economic Zones (SEZs) policy in the context of trade and globalisation
- Critically analyses the business environment in SEZs and offers policy recommendations on how to improve it
- Examines India’s experiences with SEZs and provides inputs on how to make SEZs successful so that they can contribute to India’s growth and development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: India Studies in Business and Economics (ISBE)
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About the authors
Dr. Parthapratim Pal is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. He has a Masters, MPhil and Ph.D. in Economics from the Center for Economic Studies and Planning of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before joining the IIM, he worked with the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations (ICRIER), Economic Research Foundation (ERF) and the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT). He has engaged in numerous consultancy and research projects for the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Agriculture, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), WTO, UNCTAD and British High Commission. His recentareas of interest include international trade, regional trade agreements, WTO related issues and international capital flows. He has produced a number of publications in nationally and internationally reputed journals and books.
Dr. Saubhik Deb is an economist and independent consultant, specialized in the evaluation of public sector programs and randomized controlled trials. He was an economist with the World Bank at Washington DC and worked on evaluations of various World Bank projects, country assistance programs and thematic evaluations in the areas of aid effectiveness, gender and development, global food crisis etc. He has also worked as external consultant for the ADB and ICRIER. He is currently working in the areas of development economics and open-economy macroeconomics and has published his work in various forums. Dr. Deb has a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University, USA and M.A. and M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Subhobrota Ray is an economist and an independent consultant. Currently she is working on projects with ICRIER and CII. She has several years of research and project management experience with premier chambers of commerce (CII and Indian Chamber of Commerce) and economic research institutes (ICRIER). She has been involved in industry related research spanning a wide spectrum of sectors. She is a university rank holder with a post-graduate degree in Economics from Presidency College, Calcutta University, and has been awarded a First Prize - Presidential Award (1996) for a paper on “Vision of South Asia and How That Vision Should Be Realised” among participants from SAARCcountries.
Tanu M. Goyal is a Consultant at ICRIER. Her research interests include trade in services, foreign direct investment issues and retail. She has several years of research experience and has worked on projects for the Government of India, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the European Commission (EC), among others. She has conducted an evaluation study for a cluster development scheme of the Indian Government and has extensive field experience and knowledge of Government’s policies on the topic. She has published several international and national journal articles, book chapters, reports and other popular media articles on policy and trade issues. She has a Masters degree in Economics with specialisation in the world economy from the Centre of Trade and Development (CITD), Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Special Economic Zones in India
Book Subtitle: Status, Issues and Potential
Authors: Arpita Mukherjee, Parthapratim Pal, Saubhik Deb, Subhobrota Ray, Tanu M Goyal
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2806-6
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2804-2Published: 27 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3843-0Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2806-6Published: 14 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 254
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Policy, Development Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Emerging Markets/Globalization
Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking