The WTO and India : Issues and negotiating strategies

Contents:
Acknowledgement;
List of Abbreviations;
Short explanations of terms;
Introduction by Alokesh Barua and Robert M. Stern;

Section I: A Developing Countries Perspective;
1. The WTO and Trade Negotiations: A Developing Country Viewpoint by Manoj Pant;
2. The WTO and our Role in the World Economy of the Future by Ashok Guha;

Section II: Negotiating Options and Strategies;
3. India and Coalitions in Multilateral Trade Negotiations by Manmohan Agarwal;
4. Searching for the Missing Link: India s Negotiation Strategy at WTO? By Debashis Chakraborty;
5. Designing a Pro-active Stance for India in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations by Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern;
6. India at Doha: Retrospect and Prospect by Arvind Panagariya;

Section III: Market Access: Agriculture, Manufactures and Textiles;
7. WTO Agriculture Negotiations and India by Ramesh Chand;
8. Trade and Industrial Performance Since the WTO Reforms: What Indian Evidences Suggest? By Alokesh Barua, Debashis Chakraborty and Pavel Chakraborty;
9. How Big is the Bang for India? Market Access in Textiles by Samar Verma;

Section IV: Trade Facilitation and Government Procurement;
10. Regional Integration through Trade Facilitation: Integrating East India with Bangladesh and North India with Central Asia by Pritam Banerjee, Dipankar Sengupta and Phunchok Stobdan;
11. Transparency in Government Procurement: A Case Study of India by Sandwip Kumar Das;

Section V: TRIPS and GATS;
12. The TRIPS Agreement: Public Health Concerns for India by Amit Shovon Ray;
13. GATS and India: Negotiations in Mode 3 by Rashmi Banga;
14. GATS Negotiations in Environmental Services: A developing country perspective with special reference to India by Aparna Sawhney;

Section VI: Growth, Poverty and Inequality;
15. Trade and Poverty in the Poor Countries by Jagdish Bhagwati and T. N. Srinivasan;
16. Globalisation, Growth and the Poor by T.N. Srinivasan and Jessica Seddon Wallack;
17. Income Distribution, Structural Change and International Trade: A Developing Countries Perspective with Special Reference to India by Ananya Ghosh Dastidar;
18. Trade Liberalization and Income Inequality: An Analysis of Inter-Regional Income Inequality in India by Alokesh Barua and Pavel Chakraborty;

Bibliography;
List of Contributors;
Index.