An economic assessment of the indian computer industry in the post liberalisation period

Abstract

The Indian computer sector was completely liberalised in 2005 by reducing the newlinetariff rate to zero as per the Information Technology Agreement (ITA). To newlinepromote the widespread use of Information technology, WTO has given utmost newlineimportance towards the trade liberalisation by manifesting the ITA to distribute newlinethe gains from trade of Information technology product and penetrate the newlinecompetition of the industry throughout the world. An economic assessment of the newlineIndian computer industry is relevant in this present context because the newlineimplementation of ITA was completed for more than a decade. Consequently, newlinewhether the industry has benefited or not, in this post liberalisation era (especially newlinein the post ITA) is being studied in this thesis. Reduction in tariff or tariff newlinerationalization falls under the globalization or external liberalisation policy of a newlinenation. The nature of competitiveness, way of conducts and performance newlineparameters such as productivity, efficiency and employment strategy of a newlinedomestic industry is affected by modifications in the industry specific tariff newlinepolicy. This is because the domestic industry faces higher degree of competition newlinein the context of reduction in nominal tariff due to liberalisation policy newline