India: IIFT lays stress on high-value product exports.

NEW DELHI, July 9. THE Government should initiate specific measures to promote high-value products exports, given the low growth rate in global demand for commodities and low skill/ low technology intensive products as well as the continued stagnation in their price realisation.

This is the principal conclusion of a new study on 'Export Performance: Increasing Competitiveness through New Sources of Productivity Growth' made by Prof B. Bhattacharya of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT).

Stating that value addition could come only through introduction of technology at each stage of the value-chain, Prof. Bhattacharya maintained that this is not …