Overview
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.
Synopsis
World Bank officials and Indian and U.S. economists consider the implications for India of the Uruguay Round negotiations and the Doha Development Agenda of the World Trade Organization. Mattoo (Development Research Group, World Bank) and Stern (emeritus, economics and public policy, U. of Michigan) present 13 papers in all, offering examinations of such topics as India as user and creator of intellectual property; the role of Indian standard-setting institutions in technical barriers to trade; trade, investment, and competition policy; implications of the abolition of the Multifibre Agreement; and telecommunication policy reform. Co-published by Oxford U. Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR