A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RECENT EXPORT PERFORMANCES OF CHINA AND INDIA* Kaliappa Kalirajan Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development and National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies 7-22-1 Roppongi Minato-ku Tokyo 106-8677 Japan and Kanhaiya Singh National Council of Applied Economic Research Parisila Bhawan 11, Indraprastha Estate New Delhi 110 002 India * Paper presented at the Asian Economic Panel Meeting at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. on 10 April 2007. Comments and suggestions on an earlier version by discussants, Lael Brainard, Brookings Institution, and Zhang Xiaojing, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and participants are gratefully acknowledged. A special thanks to Wing Thye Woo for commissioning this study for this Panel Meeting.