How Vulnerable is India's Economy to Foreign Sanctions?

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Main Author: Veetil, Vipin P.
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Published: 2026
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contents This paper develops a simple model of the world supply chain to estimate the effects of sanctions that restrict the flow of inputs from one country to another. Such restrictions operate through changes in the weights of the global production network: the sanctioning country ceases supplying certain inputs to the target country and reallocates its production to other destinations. Using the OECD Inter-Country Input--Output tables, we calibrate the model to assess the vulnerability of the Indian economy. We consider two classes of counterfactuals: restrictions on a single sector of a foreign country supplying India, and restrictions on all sectors of a foreign country supplying India. We then rank foreign countries and foreign country-sectors by the risk that their supply restrictions pose to economic activity in India. Our results show that India's greatest country-level vulnerability is to China, followed by the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Saudi Arabi and Russia, with the vulnerability to China being twice as much that to the UAE.
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spellingShingle How Vulnerable is India's Economy to Foreign Sanctions?
Veetil, Vipin P.
General Economics
Economics
Social and Information Networks
This paper develops a simple model of the world supply chain to estimate the effects of sanctions that restrict the flow of inputs from one country to another. Such restrictions operate through changes in the weights of the global production network: the sanctioning country ceases supplying certain inputs to the target country and reallocates its production to other destinations. Using the OECD Inter-Country Input--Output tables, we calibrate the model to assess the vulnerability of the Indian economy. We consider two classes of counterfactuals: restrictions on a single sector of a foreign country supplying India, and restrictions on all sectors of a foreign country supplying India. We then rank foreign countries and foreign country-sectors by the risk that their supply restrictions pose to economic activity in India. Our results show that India's greatest country-level vulnerability is to China, followed by the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Saudi Arabi and Russia, with the vulnerability to China being twice as much that to the UAE.
title How Vulnerable is India's Economy to Foreign Sanctions?
topic General Economics
Economics
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12128