Doha Development Agenda : A Global View
Contents: Foreword/Supachai Panitchpakdi. Preface/Anand G. Mahindra. Introduction. I. View from the top: 1. India, US and the WTO/Arun Jaitley. 2. Doha Development Agenda: the European Union and the Commonwealth/Pascal Lamy. 3. Trade and agriculture: delivering the Doha mandate/Mark Vaile. 4. Successful conclusion of the Doha Development Agenda/Jim Sutton. 5. Harnessing globalization for development/Patricia Hewitt. 6. India’s stake in Cancun/Susan G. Esserman. 7. The missing spirit of the Marrakesh agreement/Rahul Bajaj. II. The Doha agenda: 8. Whither the WTO?/Razeen Sally. 9. Open markets: the best economic medicine/Maria Livanos Cattaui. 10. The Doha development road-road to Cancun/Margaret Liang. 11. Meaningful and lasting trade liberalization needs high ambitions/Mary A. Irace. 12. The Doha Development Agenda: UNICE’s perspectives/Philippe De Buck. 13. Towards a democratic world trading system: four challenges for the WTO/William J. Antholis. 14. Challenges for the multilateral trading system/Luzius Wasescha. 15. Whither development in the Doha Round/Muchkund Dubey. 16. Developing countries in the WTO regime/Arif Hussain. 17. The Doha Development Round: is Cancun the end of the road?/Fred L. Smith. 18. European Union, India and the WTO/Herve Jouanjean. 19. Indian agriculture and the WTO/Amir Ullah Khan. 20. Textiles in the context of Cancun ministerial/Munir Ahmad. 21. The Doha Work Programme: the stakes, challenges and opportunities for Indian industry/Lakshmi M. Puri. 22. Biodiversity, biosafety and WTO/Vandana Shiva. 23. Implementing convention on biological diversity and agreement on TRIPs/Biswajeet Dhar. 24. Prospects for liberalization in services/Julian Arkell. 25. The General Agreement on Trade in Services and Social Services/Rupa Chanda. III. New issues: 26. Improving the Foreign Direct Investments environment/Philippe Meyer and Carlo Pettinato. 27. Trade and investment in WTO/Nagesh Kumar. 28. Negotiation on trade facilitation under the Doha Development Round/Peter Wilmott. 29. An approach to the trade facilitation agreement/David Wakeford. 30. Trade facilitation: ‘What’ is to fear?/P.P. Prabhu. 31. Regional integration and development in small states/Maurice Shiff. Annexures. Index.
"The Fourth (World Trade Organization) Ministerial in Doha (Qatar) had an ambitious negotiating mandate in a Work Programme that was launched on 14 September 2001, to be completed by 2005. However, ever since its launch, the Doha Development Agenda, as the Work Programme has come to be called, has been facing rough weather. Missed deadlines have been the main stumbling blocks in the way of negotiations and threaten to undermine the credibility of multilateral trade dialogues. The member countries of WTO have before them an unprecedented challenge. At test is their commitment to the cause of promoting fair trade; the commitments on the part of major trading nations, especially, will have to pass this crucial test if the Doha Round of Negotiations is to succeed. The current state of negotiations, however, does not evoke much confidence about the Agenda meeting the deadline of 2005, when all the agreements must be complete and formalized as a single package.
This volume is essentially an inquiry into the prospects of the much-debated Doha Round. It assembles, in one place, various points of view from different thinkers on the issues currently under negotiations, chiefly that of trade and development. Reputed experts in the field write on these and other related topics, addressing the primary concern behind the idea of this volume: can we afford to let the Doha Round of trade talks fail?." (jacket)
