Debashis Chakraborty
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This book of easy aims to challenges such thinking. Its contributors a range of scholars and NGO leaders from Asian countries and elsewhere examine the evidence on a number of issues related to trade, markets and health, and question a number of dearly held axions of the public health world.
In a volume aimed at all social scientists,economists and lawyers come together in Beyond the Transitional Phase of the WTO: An Indian Perspective on Emerging Issues to discuss topics ranging from the International Trade in Services including Telecommunications, Transport, Education and E-commerce to questions of compatibility between Obligations towards Enviornmental Protection and Social Concerns codified in international treaties and protocols and an ...
“…It is a myth that the GATT/WTO system is only about free trade. Plenty of exemptions to free trade principles are permitted. The anti-dumping agreement is one such exemption. The GATT/WTO system does not prohibit dumping, defined as exporting a product as lower than its ‘normal’ valueâ€â€¦ and thus goes the Introduction to this important volume on the subject. “…Where do we go from where? …the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) contemplates nothing ...
Notwithstanding the WTO objective, even eleven years after the inception of the multilateral body, the trade barriers, both in developed and developing countries are quite significant and unilateral liberalization is not easily forthcoming. Although this lack of market access hurt the developing countries much more severely than their developed counterparts, the former groups never systematically bargained at the negotiating table with the latter before the Doha ...
The increasing use of anti-dumping measures covering a wide range of sectors, both by developed and developing countries in recent years, indicates a policy substitution to protect domestic industries in the face of tariff reforms. While the developing countries are demanding special and different treatment to protect their interest against a possible misuse of this provision by their developed counterparts, many of them also rank among the major violators. In ...
This book analyses the contemporary state of affairs at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and India's negotiating agenda at its various forums. The WTO is important for all the countries as more than 96 per cent of world trade is controlled by bodies affiliated to it. The book identifies areas in the WTO agreements that require systematic reforms. It also discusses the negotiating history of GATT/WTO, especially after the conclusion of the WTO negotiations in ...
The current volume consists of seven articles contributed by Eight Scottish Church College Department of Economics alumni, spanning over various spheres of economic development, namely: affirmative action in education, environmental sustainability, international trade, international credit market, infrastructure and economic history. Economic development is the common thread that binds all the articles in the volume together. The current volume is tribute to ...