India and the WTO (World Bank Trade and Development Series)

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.