The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade Organisation (WTO): Law, Economics and Politics

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The book ‘The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade Organisation (WTO)-Law, Economics and Politics’ is written primarily to acquaint the initiated and th euninitiatd in the subject of International Trade Law and international Economic Relation which have evolved for the last five decades after the Bretton Woods Conference establishing ITO, IMF and IBRD and substituted GATT 1994, WTO after the Uruguay round negotiations. The Uruguay Round which started in 1986 had to face only the new non-tariff challenges but also to make multilateralism in all spheres of international economic activity a reality. Obviously, therefore subjects such as Services, Investments, Intellectual Property Rights and all other international economic activities including the settlement of disputes became the subject of intense debate in the Uruguay Round which finally culminated in a new institutional structures in the form of WTO and its Annexes. Developing Countries in the GATT/WTO encapsulates the paradox of how developing countries in the GATT 1947 were feeling discriminated and the same discrimination appears writ large in WTO/GATT 1994 yet the developing countries cannot efford to avoid the WTO or GATT. However, the developing countries have to make structural adjustments and also to ask for special and differential treatment from the GATT/WTO Trade Law Regime coupled with the IMF, IBRD legal regime.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Autar Krishen Koul

Prof. Autar Krishen Koul, Former Dean and Head and Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, presently Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Jodhpur is a scholar of eminence who has been teaching international trade law for the last three decades. He is a Visiting Professor to various Law Schools in India and United States. Prof. Koul's Ph.D. Thesis "The Legal Framework of UNCTAD in World Trade" published by A.W. Sijthoff, Leyden, Netherlands and N.M. Tripathi, Mumbai achieved the distinction of being prescribed as compulsory reading in various Law Schools of the World including London School of Economics and Political Science, London. Prof. Kaul has edited five books and published three books and more than forty articles in Indian and Foreign Journals. Prof. Koul was a Consultant, to the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations, to University Grants Commission (UGC), to Government of India, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Prof. Koul has participated and presented papers in more than 100 Seminars spanning through his more than three decades of teaching career.

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Title
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade Organisation (WTO): Law, Economics and Politics
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
819028830X
Length
xx+629p., Tables; Bibliography; Index; 24cm.
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