Beyond the Transition Phase of WTO

by Debashis Chakraborty, Dipankar Sengupta, Pritam Banerjee

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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 International Trade Regime that promotes free trade. The contributors discuss current problems that affect Indiaâ€™s agriculture like SPS-TBT, and Agricultural Subsidies as well as the issue of Seed Protection and Genetically Modified Crops. The volume also looks at problems and prospects of Indian industry in the face of the MFA phase-out and TRIPS. This projective volume not only projects future problems that will rise as India enters into an increasing number of Regional Trading Arrangements but also grapples with legal problems like Indiaâ€™s experiences where dispute Resolution at the WTO are concerned. The volume concludes with a discussion on the Singapore Issue like Trade Facilitation, Government Procurement and Competition Policy. The volume not only discusses the importance of these issues to India as well as the current â€˜state of playâ€™ but suggests the appropriate positions for India to take on all these issues at the WTO negotiations and other for a if a global agreement on an issue is not possible.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Debashis Chakraborty

Debashis Chakraborty is Research Associate at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi. He was educated at the University of Calcutta and at the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University and his areas of interest include International Trade, the interface between Law and Economic and Indian Economic Development. He has presented and published papers at various academic and policy forums in India and abroad.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dipankar Sengupta

Dipankar Sengupta is currently Economics Fellow in the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. He is on leave from Jawaharlal Nehru University where he teaches economics at the School of International Studies. He was educated at the University of Calcutta and at the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University and his area sof itnerest include International Political Economy, Industrial Organisation Theory and Indian include International Political Economy, Industrial organisation Theory and Indian Economic Development and has published extensively on these subjects.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pritam Banerjee

Pritam Banerjee was formerly a Trade Policy analyst with the confederation of Indian Industry. He has also been with the World Bank as a consultant in Washington DC. He was educated at Illinois Wesleyan University, London School of Economics and the Centre for International Trade and Development, London School of Economics and the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His primary interests include GATS, International Services Supply Chains and Trade Facilitation in Service.