Arvind Panagariya is Professor of Economics and the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University. From January 2015 to August 2017, he served as the first Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog, Government of India in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. Previously he was Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He is the author of India: The Emerging Giant (2008, OUP) and his columns have appeared in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and India Today.

• Chapter 1 - Setting the StagePart I - Questioning the Protectionists' ArgumentsChapter 2 - The Mirage of Infant Industry ProtectionChapter 3 - Other Common Arguments for ProtectionChapter 4 - The Positive Case for Trade Openness Part II - Trade, Growth, Poverty and InequalityChapter 5 - Trade Openness and Growth: Exposing the Critics' Specious ArgumentsChapter 6 - Trade Openness and Sustained Rapid Growth: Miracles and DebaclesChapter 7 - Trade Openness and Poverty: Exposing the Critics' Specious ArgumentsChapter 8 - Trade Openness and Poverty: The Empirical EvidenceChapter 9 - Trade Openness and Inequality Part III - Miracles of YesteryearChapter 10 - The Uncontroversial Cases of Hong Kong and SingaporeChapter 11 - Taiwan: An Early Triumph of Outward OrientationChapter 12 - South Korea: From Basket Case to Middle Income Part IV - Miracles of TodayChapter 13 - India: From Near Autarky to Near Free Trade

Throughout, Panagariya manages to provide compelling evidence showing the failures of trade protection and the success stories of free trade... This book serves as a reminder of how free trade can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

Arvind Panagariya is Professor of Economics and the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University. From January 2015 to August 2017, he served as the first Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog, Government of India in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. Previously he was Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He is the author of India: The Emerging Giant (2008, OUP) and his columns have appeared in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and India Today.

• Chapter 1 - Setting the StagePart I - Questioning the Protectionists' ArgumentsChapter 2 - The Mirage of Infant Industry ProtectionChapter 3 - Other Common Arguments for ProtectionChapter 4 - The Positive Case for Trade Openness Part II - Trade, Growth, Poverty and InequalityChapter 5 - Trade Openness and Growth: Exposing the Critics' Specious ArgumentsChapter 6 - Trade Openness and Sustained Rapid Growth: Miracles and DebaclesChapter 7 - Trade Openness and Poverty: Exposing the Critics' Specious ArgumentsChapter 8 - Trade Openness and Poverty: The Empirical EvidenceChapter 9 - Trade Openness and Inequality Part III - Miracles of YesteryearChapter 10 - The Uncontroversial Cases of Hong Kong and SingaporeChapter 11 - Taiwan: An Early Triumph of Outward OrientationChapter 12 - South Korea: From Basket Case to Middle Income Part IV - Miracles of TodayChapter 13 - India: From Near Autarky to Near Free Trade

Throughout, Panagariya manages to provide compelling evidence showing the failures of trade protection and the success stories of free trade... This book serves as a reminder of how free trade can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

Arvind Panagariya is Professor of Economics and the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University. From January 2015 to August 2017, he served as the first Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog, Government of India in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. Previously he was Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He is the author of India: The Emerging Giant (2008, OUP) and his columns have appeared in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and India Today.

• Chapter 1 - Setting the StagePart I - Questioning the Protectionists' ArgumentsChapter 2 - The Mirage of Infant Industry ProtectionChapter 3 - Other Common Arguments for ProtectionChapter 4 - The Positive Case for Trade Openness Part II - Trade, Growth, Poverty and InequalityChapter 5 - Trade Openness and Growth: Exposing the Critics' Specious ArgumentsChapter 6 - Trade Openness and Sustained Rapid Growth: Miracles and DebaclesChapter 7 - Trade Openness and Poverty: Exposing the Critics' Specious ArgumentsChapter 8 - Trade Openness and Poverty: The Empirical EvidenceChapter 9 - Trade Openness and Inequality Part III - Miracles of YesteryearChapter 10 - The Uncontroversial Cases of Hong Kong and SingaporeChapter 11 - Taiwan: An Early Triumph of Outward OrientationChapter 12 - South Korea: From Basket Case to Middle Income Part IV - Miracles of TodayChapter 13 - India: From Near Autarky to Near Free Trade

Throughout, Panagariya manages to provide compelling evidence showing the failures of trade protection and the success stories of free trade... This book serves as a reminder of how free trade can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.