Foreign Trade Review
Foreign Policy Analysis | International Development | International Political Economy
The constant evolution of the international trading system, the proliferation of regional trade blocs, the role of the WTO, the changes in production and distribution technologies, the volatility of oil prices and emergence of new financial architecture have contributed significantly to the growth of world trade.
Emergence of developing economies, especially BRICS, rise of Southeast Asian countries and South-South Cooperation have challenged the long dominance of the North. The pattern of trade among individual countries, the behaviour of MNCs and the aspirations of individual entrepreneurs have also changed immensely. Capitalization of trade gains, business opportunities, welfare of emerging countries and LDCs and instability of financial markets are constantly posing challenges to be tackled at individual, firm and countries level. All these require fundamental research to provide the necessary policy prescriptions, analysis and critical inputs suitable for a developing economy like India and the world.
The Foreign Trade Review (FTR), a peer-reviewed quarterly journal, has more than four and half decades of existence in the academic research fraternity. Throughout this period, the Journal has aimed to cater to the above-mentioned research domain.
- The target audience of FTR includes academicians, university professors, researchers, policy makers, policy analysts, trade and industry professionals, various university libraries, management institutes, multilateral bodies like WTO, UNCTAD, World Bank etc.
- The Journal publishes articles having academic rigour, extensive trade data analysis and serious policy implications suitable for higher academic research and policy analysis.
- Articles published in FTR covers disciplines such as international trade, WTO issues, international finance, regional trade blocs, global financial crisis, trade facilitation, role of IT in international business, sectoral analysis, etc.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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The Foreign Trade Review is intended to serve as a comprehensive forum for theoretical and empirical research on cross-border issues. The coverage of the journal includes, but is not limited to the following branches of research: international trade and open economy macroeconomics, international marketing, international finance, international logistics and trade facilitation, and multilateral trade law architecture and WTO-related research. The journal publishes research articles, literature review articles, short commentaries and book reviews. Foreign Trade Review follows a double-blind peer review policy. Rather than replication exercises, submissions are sought for new ways of estimating existing theoretical models and development of new theoretical models along with their empirical estimation. Application of newly developed statistical models (along with their computer programmes and dataset, if required) in the context of existing theory or new theory is another area of interest for the journal. The major target audience of Foreign Trade Review includes the researchers and academicians involved in theoretical and empirical research on cross-border issues.
| Ranajoy Bhattacharyya | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, India |
| Debashis Chakraborty | Associate Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Kolkata |
| Biswajit Nag | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India |
| Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente | University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain |
| Saikat Banerjee | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, India |
| Mita Bhattacharya | Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Tushar Bharati | University of Western Australia, Australia |
| Mauricio Vaz Lobo Bittencourt | Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Brazil |
| Bibek Ray Chaudhuri | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, India |
| Hung Yi Chen | Department of International Business, Soochow University, Taiwan |
| Alexander Bilson Darku | University of Lethbridge, Calgary, Canada |
| Gouranga Gopal Das | Department of Economics, Hanyang University, South Korea |
| Nadia Doytch | Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA |
| Triptendu Prakash Ghosh | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, India |
| Sheeba Kapil | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India |
| Hooi Hooi Lean | Economics Program, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia |
| Sara Maioli | Newcastle University Business School, UK |
| Nanditha Mathew | United Nations University - MERIT, Netherlands |
| Sanghita Mondal | PGDAV College(M), University of Delhi, India |
| Arijit Mukherjee | Nottingham University Business School, UK |
| Jaydeep Mukherjee | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India |
| Kwame Osei-Assibey | University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Adriana Peluffo | Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay |
| Gulasekaran Rajaguru | Bond Business School, Bond University, Australia |
| Daniel Sakyi | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana |
| Chris Schinckus | School of Business, Fraser Valley University, Abbotsford, Canada |
| Rahul Sen | Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Deepankar Sinha | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, India |
| Divya Tuteja | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India |
| I.K.M. Mokhtarul Wadud | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Joshua Aizenman | University of South California, USA |
| Richard E Baldwin | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Christian Bellak | Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria |
| Julien Chaisse | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Alan Deardorff | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
| Christopher Findlay | Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| John Gilbert | Utah State University, Logan, USA |
| Bernard Hoekman | Robert Schuman Centre for advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy |
| Jean-François Huchet | University of Sorbonne Paris Cité, France |
| Raghbendra Jha | Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| Kala Krishna | Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Chang-fa Lo | National Taiwan University, Taiwan |
| Sugata Marjit | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, India & Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India |
| Jayant Menon | ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore |
| Devashish Mitra | Syracuse University, USA |
| Surender Munjal | Leeds University, UK |
| Noritsugu Nakanishi | Kobe University, Japan |
| Hildegunn Kyvik Nordas | Council on Economic Policies (CEP), Switzerland and Örebro University, Sweden |
| Marcelo Olarreaga | University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| Manoj Pant | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India |
| Richard Pomfret | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Prasada Rao | The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
| Peter Robertson | University of Western Australia Business School, Perth, Australia |
| Razeen Sally | Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National university of Singapore, Singapore |
| Partha Sen | Former Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Ian Sheldon | The Ohio State University, USA |
| Anna Strutt | University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand |
| Daria Taglioni | The World Bank, Washington DC, USA |
| Richard S.J. Tol | University of Sussex, UK |
| Binh Tran-Nam | UNSW Business School, Australia |
| L Alan Winters | University of Sussex, UK |
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References:
Books:
Patnaik, Utsa (2007). The republic of hunger. New Delhi: Three Essays Collective.
Edited Books:
Amanor, Kojo S., & Moyo, S. (Eds) (2008). Land and sustainable development in Africa. London and New York: Zed Books.
Translated books:
Amin, S. (1976). Unequal development (trans. B. Pearce). London and New York: Monthly Review Press.
Book chapters:
Chachra, S. (2011). The national question in India. In S. Moyo and P. Yeros (Eds), Reclaiming the nation. (pp. 67–78). London and New York: Pluto Press.
Journal articles:
Foster, J.B. (2010). The financialization of accumulation. Monthly Review, 62(5), 1−17. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225 [Doi number optional]
Newsletter article, no author:
Six sites meet for comprehensive anti-gang intiative conference. (2006, November/December). OOJDP News @ a Glance. Retrieved from http://www.ncrjs.gov/html
Newspaper article:
Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4.
In-press article:
Briscoe, R. (in press). Egocentric spatial representation in action and perception. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Retrieved from http://cogprints.org/5780/1/ECSRAP.F07.pdf
Non-English reference book, title translated into English:
Real Academia Espanola. (2001). Diccionario de la lengua espanola [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (22nd ed.). Madrid, Spain: Author.
Special issue or section in a journal:
Haney, C., & Wiener, R.L. (Eds) (2004). Capital punishment in the United States [Special Issue]. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 10(4), 1−17.
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Rajat Kathuria and Mansi Kedia Jaju, A Study of India’s Investment Environment, Major FDI Inflows and Suggestions for Taiwan’s Businessmen. New Delhi: Academic Foundation and Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), 2013, Rs 795, 151 pp.,ISBN 9789332700840.