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The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries Revisited: The Case of India’s Computer Software Sector

In: Development Economics and Policy

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  • V. N. Balasubramanyam
  • Ahalya Balasubramanyam

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Hans Singer’s thesis concerning the unequal distribution of gains from trade and foreign investment between investing and borrowing countries, first enunciated in 1949 (Singer 1950) has been revisited many times, most importantly by Singer himself some twenty-five years after the first paper was published (Singer, 1972). The first paper identified the nature and the type of trade between the developed and the underdeveloped countries as the principal factor in the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and investment between the two groups of countries. The message of the second paper, which Singer labelled as Singer II, located the source of the unequal distribution of gains from trade and investment, not so much in the nature of commodities traded, but in the nature of the technological endowments and the characteristics of the countries between which trade and investment take place.

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  • V. N. Balasubramanyam & Ahalya Balasubramanyam, 1998. "The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries Revisited: The Case of India’s Computer Software Sector," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: David Sapsford & John-ren Chen (ed.), Development Economics and Policy, chapter 15, pages 287-299, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26769-9_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26769-9_15
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