India's trade relations with Japan: an economic analysis.
- New Delhi Indus Publishing. 1993
- 240 p.
During the colonial period, India was involved in international trade largely with Great Britain. After independence, in her quest for new trading partners, India found Japan to be advantageous and useful. India receives aid from Japan and accepts Japan's technological and financial participation in her various developmental projects and collaborations. While Japan plays a crucial role in India's trade, India has a long way to go vis-a-vis Japan's trade. This book explores the in-depth trends and structure of India's trade relations with Japan. The focus of analysis here is on overall growth, instability, diversification and elasti city of trade. In view of the increa sing Japanese invovlement in various aspects of Indian development, this book provides very exhaustive analysis of the pattern of export and import between the two countries. Bilateral trade relations have also been studied with the help of terms of trade calculations. Several policy implications follow from this study. The book should prove useful to students, researchers and policy framers.