IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijicbm/v1y2008i3p265-276.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Antecedents to India's textile exports: 1985–2005

Author

Listed:
  • Eve M.H. Chan
  • Kin Fan Au
  • Manas K. Sarkar

Abstract

India's wealth in cotton resources has enabled the labour-oriented textile industry to become a significant contributor to the economy and employment of the country. In 2005, India's textiles export value to the world amounted to the US$8.3 billion, which represented 16% of its commodity exports. In this paper, using the data from 1985 to 2005, the economic factors affecting the textile exports between India and its top 10 importers are analysed using the gravity model with Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique and panel data estimation approach in order to identify the impact of the major factors that underpinned India's textile exports. The results indicate a strong support for the gravity model and illustrate that the determinants including Gross Domestic Product (GDP), real exchange rate, per capita GDP and population growth rate of the importers all have a significant impact. In contrast, the introduction of the Euro has indicated a negative effect while the formation of the World Trade Organisation shows no obvious influence in India's textile trading.

Suggested Citation

  • Eve M.H. Chan & Kin Fan Au & Manas K. Sarkar, 2008. "Antecedents to India's textile exports: 1985–2005," International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 1(3), pages 265-276.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijicbm:v:1:y:2008:i:3:p:265-276
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=17785
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijicbm:v:1:y:2008:i:3:p:265-276. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=235 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.