WTO and India
Contents: Preface. Introduction/Anil Kumar Thakur and Nageshwar Sharma. I. WTO and India's foreign trade: 1. WTO and the emerging pattern of India's foreign trade/P. Leela. 2. India's exports under the WTO regime: an assessment/Abdul Wahab. 3. Impact of World Trade Organisation on India's foreign trade: trends and prospects/Dev Raj. 4. The trade gravity between India and the world after implementation of the WTO in its totality/Bhupendra V. Singh, Nripendra P. Singh and Pratibha Singh. 5. Relationship between trade liberalization, economic growth and balance of payments in India: an econometric approach/T.K.S. Villalan and M.S. Kalavathi. 6. WTO and trade liberalisation in India/Dhanashri J. Mahajan. 7. Trade in textiles and clothing under WTO: challenges ahead and strategies of India for global competitiveness/B.P. Chandramohan. 8. Environmental implications of India's foreign trade under the liberalised WTO regime: a review/Md. Abdus Salam. 9. Non-tariff barriers and NAMA negotiations: developing India's negotiating position/Parashar Kulkarni. II. WTO and India's service sector: 10. WTO-GATS and India: destination or crossroads/Dinesh Kumar Sharma and Masood Hasan. 11. Trade in financial services: WTO and India/G.M. Bhat and Altaf Hussain Kira. 12. WTO and higher education: challenges and opportunities for India/Nighat Ahmad. 13. Impact of WTO on human resources development in India/Zainab M. Khurram. 14. Outsourcing of services: problems and prospects for India/Jayesh N. Desai. III. WTO and India's agriculture sector: 15. World Trade Organisation and its impact on India's agricultural exports/K.K. Koushik and Sanju Karol. 16. A review of Indian agricultural export scenario in the context of WTO regulation/Roopali Srivastava and J.N. Purwar. 17. Impact of WTO on Indian Agricultural Trade/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 18. WTO and Indian agriculture/Shyam Sunder Singh Chauhan and Sadhana Singh. 19. Export and import of agricultural products in India: an appraisal of post-reform period/M.S. Sidhu, Sukhpal Singh and T.K. Dhaliwal. 20. Impact of WTO on Indian agriculture/M.S. Kallur and K.A. Rasure. 21. Implications of new international trade regime on Indian agriculture: perspectives of food sovereignty/D.M. Diwakar. 22. The effect of trade liberalisation on Indian livestock sector: issues and options/Akram A. Khan. 23. Export prospects of India's livestock products: trends, dimensions and determinants/S.P. Singh ad M.R. Behera. 24. Impact of WTO on second green revolution and farm diversity: an appraisal/Sita Ram Singh and Jai Shankar Singh. IV. Trips, Trims and India: 25. Implications of TRIPs for developing countries with special reference to India/Neera Verma and Pallavi Sharma. 26. Intellectual property rights and Indian economy: an analytical study/Suparn K. Sharma and R.K. Rana. 27. WTO and research and development in pharmaceutical industry/Arijita Dutta. 28. Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs): impact and implications for India with reference to Indian pharmaceutical industry/S. Sankaranarayanan and V. Pradeep. 29. Product patents: emerging challenges and opportunities for pharmaceutical industry in India/Reeta Sinha. 30. WTO, TRIPs and India: contemporary issues and implications for India's pharmaceutical industry/Vikram Chadha. 31. Post-TRIPs technology acquisition and knowledge transfer in India: with special reference to pharmaceutical industry/G.C. Tripathi, Partha Achutya and Abhisek Kumar Pandey. 32. TRIPs and the Indian software industry: the underlying dynamics/Inderjeet Singh and Parmod Kumar. 33. TRIPs: Boon or bane for Indian software industries?/Krishan Bhushan Padmadeo, Navendu Shekhar and Usha Kiran. 34. The investment issue: revive or TRIM the performance requirements?/Neelam Singh. 35. WTO and Indian agriculture: an egregious weapon of TRIPs/M.P. Singh and Pramod Kumar Jha. V. WTO, Trade disputes and anti-dumping: 36. World Trade Organisation and trade disputes in India/P. Anbalagan. 37. Anti-dumping retaliation: a common threat to international trade/Aryashree Debapriya and Tapan Kumar Panda. 38. Determinants of anti-dumping protection: an inter-country analysis/Paramjit Nanda and P.S. Raikhy. Index.
"This book deals with the theme WTO and India. World Trade Organization (WTO) since its very inception has been a matter of intense debate in the academic as well as policy circles. India being the founder member and an advocate of fair trade, there has been a lot of expectations for substantial trade gains. However, the actual market access for India could not turn out to be significant. Over time, the North-south polarization over many issues got deepened, reflected in the deadlock in the dialogue process at Cancun Ministerial Conference. Resultantly, the member countries adopted a framework agreement on August 1, 2004 for setting the stage for negotiations during forthcoming sixth Ministerial Conference of WTO, held at Hong Kong during December 13-18, 2005. The framework agreement, possibly, accommodated all genuine concerns raised by developing and least developed countries and thereby provided a good beginning after an 'end' at Cancun.
However, apprehensions have been raised over the commitment made and the actual results likely to come about. India being a forerunner in voicing the concerns of developing countries. It is high time to take a stock of the progress on various fronts in the light of WTO policies and their adherence. Only a careful analysis of the impact of WTO policies and provisions on various aspects of the economy can enable us to know--what should be next in the agenda?
The book is timely and deals with an extremely important theme. The contents of the book are likely to be useful for academics, policy-makers, corporate professionals and students interested in research on WTO alike." (jacket)
