India and the WTO
India and the WTO

Author: Robert M. Stern

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2003-08-29

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0821383663

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This book is designed to clarify India's interests in the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda and to provide a blueprint for its strategy in multilateral negotiations. The focus is on facilitating domestic and external policy reforms that can serve to bolster India's participation in the multilateral trading system and to enhance the effectiveness of India's trade and related policies in achieving developmental goals. Individual chapters address the economic effects on India of the Uruguay Round Negotiations and the prospective Doha Agenda negotiations; the implications of the abolition of the Multi-Fiber Agreement; services issues and liberalization; telecommunications policy reforms; foreign direct investment; intellectual property rights; competition policy; government procurement; standards and technical barriers; trade and environment; and, finally, a comprehensive analysis of the major issues coupled with concrete proposals to guide India's participation in the Doha Development Agenda.

WTO, India, and Emerging Areas of Trade
WTO, India, and Emerging Areas of Trade

Author: P. Rameshan

Publisher: Excel Books India

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9788174465931

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This book is recommended for those readers and students who are keen on getting a deeper understanding on the strategic issues facing the different sectors of the Indian economy and business in the aftermath of the emergence of the WTO system and the new global economic and business order that the WTO agreements have brought about. The book will raise your strategic anxieties on India to such a great height that after reading it, you will certainly be inspired to think seriously about possible ways of enabling the Indian economy and business to achieve a more rapid global ascendance. All discussions in the book are in the context of the WTO agreements. While discussing India s past trade performance and future potentials, the book makes extensive references to the US, European Union and China, the three most powerful economies of the contemporary world. There are several instances in the book where Indian achievements are benchmarked against China s. Besides, the book explores the direction of India s trade future with respect to the ASEAN. The book also focuses on such burning topics as Indian companies in the global markets, India s trade gains in textiles and clothing, intellectual property protection to traditional knowledge, food security issues under a free trade regime, India s international trade in agricultural products, India s business in business process outsourcing, and the trade potentials in higher education. Further, there are interesting discussions in the book on the trade or investment issues of automobile, pharmaceutical, FMCG, retailing, livestock, plantation and tourism sectors. In each case, the book has made due focus of its attention on the required strategic recourse for India. In a nutshell, the book is an essential reading for anyone who longs to see India reemerging as the dominant force in the global economy.

Trade, the WTO and Energy Security
Trade, the WTO and Energy Security

Author: Sajal Mathur

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-10

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 8132219554

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The linkages between WTO rules governing trade and energy security with a certain degree of focus on India are the main subject of this book. The edited volume brings together the views of academics, policymakers and experts with extensive experience covering WTO and international trade issues. The issues examined include mapping the linkages between trade and energy security in the WTO agreements, case law, accession and Doha negotiations; assessing the issues that could be raised by energy deficit or energy surplus countries at the WTO; analyzing the provisions of the ECT and NAFTA vis-à-vis the Indian policy framework and examining the trade regimes of selected OPEC members and other major suppliers of fossil fuels to India. While the Indian perspective is evident in the contributions, this book will also be of interest to an international audience, as trade, the WTO and energy security are global concerns and of relevance to all practitioners and academics working on these issues.

The WTO Regime on Government Procurement
The WTO Regime on Government Procurement

Author: Sue Arrowsmith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-04-28

Total Pages: 895

ISBN-13: 1139501429

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Originally an important but relatively obscure plurilateral instrument, the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is now becoming a pillar of the WTO system as a result of important developments since the Uruguay Round. This collection examines the issues and challenges that this raises for the GPA, as well as future prospects for addressing government procurement at a multilateral level. Coverage includes issues relating to pending accessions to the GPA, particularly those of developing countries with a large state sector such as China; the revised (provisionally agreed) GPA text of 2006, including provisions on electronic procurement and Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries; and procurement provisions in regional trade agreements and their significance for the multilateral system. Attention is also given to emerging issues, especially those concerning environmental, social and SME policy; competition law; and the implications of the recent economic crisis.

The WTO and Food Security
The WTO and Food Security

Author: Sachin Kumar Sharma

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-28

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9811021791

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This book examines the public stockholding policies of selected developing countries from the perspective of WTO rules and assesses whether the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could hamper these countries’ efforts to address the challenges of food security. Further, it highlights the need to amend the provisions of the AoA to make WTO rules just and fair for the millions of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. This book highlights that 12 countries namely China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Zambia and Zimbabwe are facing or will face problems in implementing the food security policies due to the provisions under AoA. These provisions need to be amended for permitting developing countries to address hunger and undernourishment. Progress in WTO negotiations on public stockholding for food security purposes are also discussed and analysed. The findings of this study greatly benefit trade negotiators, policymakers, civil society, farmers groups, researchers, students and academics interested in issues related to the WTO, agriculture and food security.

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy

Author: David Malone

Publisher: Oxford Handbooks

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 019874353X

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Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international economic issues. Its domestic market is fast-growing and India is becoming increasingly important to global geo-strategic calculations, at a time when it has been outperforming many other growing economies, and is the only Asian country with the heft to counterbalance China. Indeed, so much is India defined internationally by its economic performance (and challenges) that other dimensions of its internal situation, notably relevant to security, and of its foreign policy have been relatively neglected in the existing literature. This handbook presents an innovative, high profile volume, providing an authoritative and accessible examination and critique of Indian foreign policy. The handbook brings together essays from a global team of leading experts in the field to provide a comprehensive study of the various dimensions of Indian foreign policy.

The WTO and India
The WTO and India

Author: Alokesh Barua

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788125040422

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Partly based on a conference organized by Centre for International Trade and Development, JNU, and Cotton College, held in Guwahati, India on Aug. 11-12, 2004.

Breaking the WTO
Breaking the WTO

Author: Kristen Hopewell

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2016-08-03

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1503600025

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The world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. In Breaking the WTO, Kristen Hopewell provides a groundbreaking analysis of how these power shifts have played out in one of the most important theaters of global governance: the World Trade Organization. Hopewell argues that the collapse of the Doha Round negotiations in 2008 signals a crisis in the American-led project of neoliberal globalization. Historically, the U.S. has pressured other countries to open their markets while maintaining its own protectionist policies. Over the course of the Doha negotiations, however, China, India, and Brazil challenged America's hypocrisy. They did so not because they rejected the multilateral trading system, but because they embraced neoliberal rhetoric and sought to lay claim to its benefits. By demanding that all members of the WTO live up to the principles of "free trade," these developing states caused the negotiations to collapse under their own contradictions. Breaking the WTO probes the tensions between the WTO's liberal principles and the underlying reality of power politics, exploring what the Doha conflict tells us about the current and coming balance of power in the global economy.

Agriculture and The World Trade Organisation
Agriculture and The World Trade Organisation

Author: G. S. Bhalla, Jean-Luc Racine, Frédéric Landy

Publisher: Les Editions de la MSH

Published: 2008-05-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 2735113787

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The volume offers to the reader a multi-faceted dialogue between noted experts from two major agricultural countries, both founding members of the Word Trade Organisation, each one with different stakes in the great globalisation game. After providing the recent historical background of agricultural policies in India and France, the contributors address burning issues related to market and regulation, food security and food safety, the expected benefits from the WTO and the genuine problems raised by the new forms of international trade in agriculture, including the sensitive question of intellectual property rights in bio-technologies. This informed volume underlines the necessity of moving beyond the North-South divide, in order to address the real challenges of the future.

WTO Dispute Settlement at Twenty
WTO Dispute Settlement at Twenty

Author: Abhijit Das

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9811005990

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This book focuses on India’s participation in the WTO dispute settlement system, at a time when India has emerged as one of the most successful and prominent users of WTO dispute settlement among the developing countries. It offers a unique collection of perspectives from insiders – legal practitioners, policymakers, industry representatives and academics – on India’s participation in the system since its creation in 1995. Presenting in-depth analyses of substantive issues, the book shares rare insights into the jurisprudential significance, political economy contexts and capacity-building challenges faced by India. It closely examines India’s approach in effectively participating in the WTO’s dispute settlement mechanism including the framing of litigation strategies, developing legal and stakeholder infrastructure, implementing dispute settlement decisions, and the impacts of the findings of the WTO panels / Appellate Body on domestic policymaking and India’s long-term trade interests. In addition to discussing the key “classic” jurisprudential issues, the book also explores domestic regulatory and policy issues, complemented by selected case studies.