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  Understanding India's foreign trade and its record on openness. Explore how
  comparative advantage works, what four decades of self-reliance cost India,
  and whether China's rise makes free trade naive.
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# Trade

Understanding India's foreign trade and its record on openness. Explore how comparative advantage works, what four decades of self-reliance cost India, and whether China's rise makes free trade naive.

## Resources

- [FAQs (15)](https://liberty-lighthouse.vercel.app/topics/trade/faq.md) — Curated question-answer pairs.

Full topic dump (single file): https://liberty-lighthouse.vercel.app/topics/trade/llms-full.txt