Title: India and the WTO /
Authors: Stern, Robert M. 1927-2015.; Mattoo, Aaditya.
Publisher: World Bank ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: World Trade Organization India.; India Foreign economic relations.; India Economic policy.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Computational analysis of the impact on India of the Uruguay Round and the Doha development agenda negotiations / Rajesh Chadha [and others] -- Implications of multifibre arrangement abolition for India and South Asia / Sanjay Kathuria, Will J. Martin, and Anjali Bhardwaj -- Services issues and liberalization in the Doha development agenda negotiations: a case study of India / Rajesh Chadha -- Telecommunications policy reform in India / Rajat Kathuria, Harsha Vardhana Singh and Anita Soni -- Economic impact of foreign direct investment in South Asia / Pradeep Agrawal -- An Indian perspective on WTO rules on foreign direct investment / Satya P. Das -- India as user and creator of intellectual property: the challenges of post-Doha / Arvind Subramanian -- Trade, investment, and competition policy: an Indian perspective / Aditya Bhattacharjea -- India's accession to the government procurement agreement: identifying costs and benefits / Vivek Srivastava -- Technical barriers to trade and the role of Indian standard-setting institutions / Mohammed Saqib -- Trade and environment: Doha and beyond / Veena Jha -- India and the multilateral trading system post-Doha: defensive or proactive? / Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian.