Intellectual Property Rights in WTO and Developing Countries

Contents: Preface. 1. A study on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in WTO and developing countries/Karishma Sarkar and Nayan Barua. 2. Energy security and lesson for India/Anil Bhuimali and Bhaskar Chaudhuri. 3. Emancipation of world economy through cooperative sector/Muzamil Jan. 4. Health infrastructure in India: present challenges and future prospects/Dinesha P.T., Jayasheela and V. Basil Hans. 5. Microfinance: an effective tool for financial inclusion/Dinesha P.T. and Jayasheela. 6. Women empowerment in WTO regime: a case study of Araria District of Bihar/Sanjay Kumar Jha. 7. Anti-dumping measures under World Trade Organization (WTO)/Kamlesh Tayal and M. Tariq. 8. WTO Brand Extension- an emerging strategy of marketing/J.P. Bhosale, D.M. Gujrathi and H.D. Thorat. 9. Impact of WTO on agricultural marketing/R.B. Dhande and G.D. Kharat. 10. WTO: industrialization and global environmental degradation/B.R. Honparkhe. 11. WTO and labour standards/S.N. Yogish. 12. WTO and Intellectual Property Rights/S.N. Yogish. 13. Solid waste management/A. Vinayagamoorthy. 14. Local area banks – problems and prospects/Benson Kunjukunju and Mohan P. Philip. 15. WTO in protection of India’s IPR’s/M. Madhumathy and David Soundarajan. 16. WTO Agreement in agriculture/T.C. Brindha, R. Nithya and S. David Soundarajan. 17. Impact of globalization on Indian Sugar industry/J.P. Bhosale. 18. A brief analysis of some challenges faced by agribusiness along the value chain/Vinodh K. Natarajan and J. Cyril Kanmony. 19. Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on developing countries: an evaluation/Jawahar Lal, Ranjana Sharma and Pramod Kumar Sinha. 20. Segmentation of investors based on saving motives/R. Kasilingam and G. Jayabal. 21. Impact of the World Trade Organization on Indian economy/N. Radhakrishnan and K.G. Selvaraj. 22. Impact of the WTO on Indian agriculture – a study/N. Radhakrishnan. 23. Emerging trends in dairy products-with reference to Madurai District, Tamilnadu/N. Namasivayam and C. Raja. 24. Intellectual Property Rights and its impact on developing countries/K.A. Rasure. 25. WTO and India/M.C. Patel and S.M. Pillai. 26. World Trade Organisation – an appraisal/R. Srinivasan and B.B. Mansuri. 27. WTO and its impact on performance of Small Scale Industries (SSI) sector in India/M.K. Radhakrishnan, V.S. Ganesamurthy and A. Sengottaiyan. 28. Trade liberalization and policies in India for edible oil sector: an overview/Rama Shankar Singh and Amalendu Kumar. 29. IP enforcement mechanisms in Singapore and Bangladesh with special reference to software piracy/Mohammad Monirul Azam and Abdul Hamid Chowdhury. 30. Problems and challenges of multinational corporations: role of international business negotiations/Kameshwar Pandit. 31. Performance evaluation of Tea industry in India/R. Ezhil Jasmine. 32. Rural market in India and the role of information technology/M.V.S. Srinivasa Rao.

”Globalization process in the world economy in the form of free trade of goods and services across nations, international movements of finance, capital and labour migration has been strengthened, particularly after the revolution of information technology and concerned global actions to initiate the process of policy reforms based on trade liberalization, technological collaboration and participation of foreign equity and portfolio investment in different parts of the world. The emergence of WTO at the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations of the GATT has marked the beginning of the multilateral surveillance of the trading agreements that are evolving under the new global order.

Further, the globalization has been the catchword for international political economy discourses in the 1990s. In other words, this term connotes a process of free trade in commodities and services across the nations coupled with greater mobility of factors of production between nations such that economies of different nations tend to get integrated in practice. This would involve gradual dismantling of artificial restrictions on trade and investment in different parts of the world. This would also logically require devising of new rulers of the game being evolved at the multilateral level to coordinate the increased flows of trade and investment.” (jacket)