The Uruguay Round of Multilateral Negotiations marked a watershed in the history of the GATT. The final Act embodying the results of Agreement provides a number of agreements creating new international obligations in the area of financial services and extending GATT’s obligations to protection of IPRs, the TRIMs and measures affecting the contestability of service markets. Calls for Post-Uruguay Round negotiation have identified issues such as competition policy, FDI regulations, innovation policies and the interaction between trade and environmental policies, further industrial tariff liberalization, proposals on free trade in information technologies. The LDCs have played a marginal role in the GATT system but this will not be the case under the WTO system. TRIPS Agreement avoids the creation of artificial barriers to entry into high-technology industries. An active presence in the WTO implies a major domestic challenge for most of the LDCs in the next millennium. This series is dedicated to Raul Prebisch who underlined the dynamics of the world economy and the interdependence between the industrial countries of the north and the LDCs of the South.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neelambar Hatti
Neelambar Hatti is mainly involved in research at the Department of Economic History, University of Lund, Sweden. Dr. Hatti has written extensively on Trade, Aid and Rural Development, and Microdemography. He has also taught at the University of Copenhagen and has been a visiting Senior Fellow at the Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. He has recently authored (with Rameshwar Tandon) the study, Exports and Development: The Indian Experience.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rameshwar Tandon
Rameshwar Tandon works at the International Institute for Special Education, Lucknow. For the last three decades, he worked with Prof. VKRV Rao at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He is author-editor of numerous books and articles, most recently, Exports and Development: The Indian Experience (jointly with Prof. Neelambar Hatti)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sir Hans Singer
Sir Hans Singer is Emeritus Professor of the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex since 1969. Previously he served in the United Nations Secretariat for over 20 eyars and held a number of academic and civil service posts. He is the author of numerous books and articles, most recently The Foreign Aid Business (jointly with K. Raffer).
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