Articles by Binod Khadria

India has been receiving large numbers of immigrants, mostly from the neighbouring countries of South Asia, and some from other parts of the world, and hence she needs to be seen as a major immigration country. The article provides a detailed discussion of the problems and concerns of cross-border migrants, and India's policy stance in dealing with immigration. It argues that India needs to differentiate between the stocks and the flows of its immigrant population. Also, it would no doubt be in the larger interests of the country to control the unabated flows of migrants from across the borders and minimise their negative effects, but one must not lose sight of the components of a humane migration policy, including investment in the human capital of the migrant population.

A number of recent global events hold significant lessons for India on how it can harness its untapped human capital with the help of intangible human values and thus attract global players.

Economics and the Indian Diaspora Binod Khadria Migration, Remittances and Capital Flows; The Indian Experience by Deepak Nayyar; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994; pp x + 134, Rs 220.

GATT, GATS and Ethnocentricity in MNCs Brussels Draft Agreement on Services Binod Khadria The Draft Agreement on Trade in Services drawn up in Brussels in November last year raises a number of questions that must be answered before it can be accepted that this is even a minimally adequate package for the developing countries in return for all that the developed countries are clamouring for in the services sector.