Book Review: Binoy Goswami, Madhurjya Prasad Bezbaruah and Raju Mandal (eds), Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution: Changes and Challenges

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tion incentive, tariff barriers, inverted tariff structure, infrastructure development, custom procedure, labour laws regulations, issues in exit and entry barriers and so on. They argued that these measures would ‘stimulate FDI inflows into manufacturing in India and also improve the environment for domestic investment in manufacturing, besides, strengthening MSMEs in India’ (p. 335). In the last chapter, Arpita Mukherjee and Tanu M. Goyal used both primary data from a survey of a purposive sample of stakeholders in India and Thailand and secondary data from various official domestic and international sources on various trade and regional cooperation agreements. They found that services sector contributes significantly to the GDP and employment in East and South East Asian countries, including India. They investigated how services can be traded within the region and how it can lead to improved efficiency, market integration and creation of value chains. They primarily focused on bilateral trade between India and Thailand in the context of the CECA. They found commonalities as well as differences between the two countries in their approach to services trade. Both have restrictive FDI regimes and are selective about the movement of people under Mode 4 of the GATS. To summarize, this volume embarks on an extensive analysis to address the issues and challenges in integrating South Asia and South East Asian countries. It also addresses a series of policy intervention in terms of promoting regional value chains between and within the region. The analysis based on both primaryand secondary-level data add significant value to the policies. The volume has also given future directions through which both South Asia and South East Asian countries can drive regional integration, and what are the priority policies that need to be addressed both at industry and country level to facilitate the regional integration. This volume leaves further scope to extend and think beyond the text, and stimulates the appetite for further research. This book will be a valuable resource to students, scholars, researchers, industry stakeholders and policy makers having an interest in regional integration, value chain linkages, and general South Asia and South East Asian economies in enhancing the knowledge of the subject.