Trans Pacific Partnership, China and India

Amitendu Palit is an economist specializing in comparative economic studies, political economy of international trade, regional developments and public policies. His current research is on China-India comparative economic development, trade and regional architectures in the Asia-Pacific and political economy of economic reforms. He worked for several ministries in India, particularly the Ministry of Finance, where he worked for a decade. He has several academic publications to his credit. His latest book ‘China India Economics: Challenges, Competition and Collaboration’ was published in 2011. His other books include ‘Special Economic Zones in India: Myths and Realities’ (co-auhtored) and ‘South Asia: beyond the Global Financial Crisis’ (edited). Amitendu is a columnist for India’s ‘Financial Express’ and writes regularly for the China Daily, Wall Street Journal, Business Times and other leading global publications.　 He features regularly the CNBC, Reuters, Channel News Asia and Doordarshan. He is married to Parama Sinha Palit and is currently based in Singapore as Head (Partnership and Programme) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies in the National University of Singapore.

• 1. Why TPP, China and India  2. The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Issues and Structure  3. Economic Implications  4. Implications for Asian Regionalism  5. The Political Economy  6. China and India: How far from the TPP? 7. Strategies and Alternative Alignments

"Amitendu Palit's book is a very useful resource that benefits from its timeliness and focus on a specific comparative research topic, China's and India's interests in and present positions towards the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations." - Malcom Cook, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore