This book is designed to clarify India's interests in the WTO Doha Development Agenda and to provide a blueprint for its strategy in the Doha Round negotiations. The individual chapters span the Doha Development Agenda and include: calculations of the economic effects on India and other major trading countries/regions of the Uruguay Round negotiations and the prospective Doha Agenda negotiations; the implications for India and other exporting countries of the abolition of the Multifibre Agreement; services issues; telecommunications policy reforms; foreign direct investment inflows; intellectual property rights; competition policy; government procurement; technical barriers and standards; trade and environment; and a comprehensive analysis of the major issues coupled with concrete proposals to guide India's participation in the Doha Development Agenda.
This book is designed to clarify India's interests in the WTO Doha Development Agenda and to provide a blueprint for its strategy in the Doha Round negotiations. The individual chapters span the Doha Development Agenda and include: calculations of the economic effects on India and other major trading countries/regions of the Uruguay Round negotiations and the prospective Doha Agenda negotiations; the implications for India and other exporting countries of the abolition of the Multifibre Agreement; services issues; telecommunications policy reforms; foreign direct investment inflows; intellectual property rights; competition policy; government procurement; technical barriers and standards; trade and environment; and a comprehensive analysis of the major issues coupled with concrete proposals to guide India's participation in the Doha Development Agenda.