India and the WTO : A Stretegy for Development

by Aaditya Mattoo; Robert M. Stern

• ISBN13: 9780821354100
• ISBN10: 0821354108
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

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 Multifibre 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 Council.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
1 Introduction and Overview	1	(12)
Aaditya Mattoo and Robert M. Stern
2 Computational Analysis of the Impact on India of the Uruguay Round and the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations	13	(34)
Rajesh Chadha, Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern
3 Implications of Multifibre Arrangement Abolition for India and South Asia	47	(20)
Sanjay Kathuria, Will J. Martin, and Anjali Bhardwaj
4 Services Issues and Liberalization in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations: A Case Study of India	67	(14)
Rajesh Chadha
5 Telecommunications Policy Reform in India	81	(36)
Rajat Kathuria, Harska Vardhana Singh, and Anita Soni
6 Economic Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia	117	(24)
Pradeep Agrawal
7 An Indian Perspective on WTO Rules on Foreign Direct Investment	141	(28)
Satya P. Das
8 India as User and Creator of Intellectual Property: The Challenges Post-Doha	169	(28)
Arvind Subramanian
9 Trade, Investment, and Competition Policy: An Indian Perspective	197	(38)
Aditya Bhattacharjea
10 India's Accession to the Government Procurement Agreement: Identifying Costs and Benefits	235	(34)
Vivek Srivastava
11 Technical Barriers to Trade and the Role of Indian Standard-Setting Institutions	269	(30)
Mohammed Sagib
12 Trade and Environment: Doha and Beyond	299	(28)
Veena Jha
13 India and the Multilateral Trading System Post-Doha: Defensive or Proactive?	327	(40)
Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian
Contributors	367	(2)
Index	369