INDIA'S decision to not join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is generating sound and fury. This should lead to a holistic study of the net global benefits, if any, of thickening jungle of regional trade/free trade/preferential trade agreements (RTAs/FTAs/PTAs).

The total number of RTAs signed during 1948-2018 stand at staggering 681. Of these,

IN the beginning of 2019, the OECD had released a programme of work relating to taxation of digitalized economy that apparently rested on two pillars- pillar one was supposed to address the issue of allocation of taxing rights amongst countries in respect of the profits of multinationals arising out of cross-border transactions while