This book is designed to clarify India's interests in the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda and to provide a blueprint for its strategy in multilateral negotiations. The focus is on facilitating domestic and external policy reforms that can serve to bolster India's participation in the multilateral trading system and to enhance the effectiveness of India's trade and related policies in achieving developmental goals.

Individual chapters address the economic effects on India of the Uruguay Round negotiations and the prospective Doha Agenda negotiations; the implications of the abolition of the Multifibre Agreement; services issues and liberalization; telecommunications policy reforms; foreign direct investment; intellectual property rights; competition policy; government procurement; standards and technical barriers; trade and environment; and, finally, a comprehensive analysis of the major issues coupled with concrete proposals to guide India's participation in the Doha Development Council.

About the Author:

Aaditya Mattoo, is Lead Economist in the Development Research of the World Bank. He manages a project on international trade in services, specializes in trade policy analysis and the operation of the WTO, and is helping enhance policy-making and negotiating capacity in developing countries. Prior to joining the Bank in 1999, Mr. Mattoo was Economic Counsellor at the Trade in Services Division, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva. He also served as Economic Affairs Officer in the Economic Research and Analysis and Trade Policy Review Divisions of the WTO. Mr. Mattoo has lectured in economics at the University of Sussex and was lector at Churchill College, Cambridge University. Mt. Mattoo holds a Ph.D. in Economics from King’s College, University of Cambridge, and a M.Phil in Economics from St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

Robert M. Stern is Professor of Economics and Public Policy (Emeritus) in the Department of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He has been an active contributor to international economic research and policy for more than four decades. He has published numerous papers and books on a wide variety of topics in international trade and finance. He has collaborated with Alan Deardorff (University of Michigan) since the early 1970s and with Drusilla Brown (Tufts University) since the mid-1980s in developing the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade. This is a computer-based model that has been used to study such policy issues as the effects of the GATT/WTO multilateral trade negotiations, changes in the structure of protection, trade and employment, changes in military expenditures, and the effects of regional trading arrangements. He is currently working on the computational modeling and analysis of regional trading blocs, i! ssues in U.S.-Japan international economic relations, economic effects of India's policy reforms, issues of international labor standards and child labor exploitation, the political economy of U.S. trade policy, and the wage and labor-market effects of multinational corporations in developing countries.

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"Robert Stern, a world-class international economist, and Aaditya Mattoo, a most distinguisbTd economist with WTO experience, are a dream team. They have pr6d4ed a fully informed and invaluable set of essays on India's interests irn the Doha Round issues. This excellent volume must be read by every indian policymaker involved in the
Doha trade negotiations."
- JAGDISH BHAGWATI,  Professor, Columbia University

"India's trade policy establishment is perceived to be somewhat wary of multilateral engagement, even though India is implementing substantial economic and trade policy reforms. Some essays in this excellent and well-researched volume may throw light on this paradox. More important, the essays take a hard look at India's interests and concerns with respect to international trade. They suggest ways that , India could deploy its douestc reform agenda in the Doha Round negotiations to secure concessions from its trading partners, while using multilateral engagement to reinforce the domestic reform process and enhance the process's credibility The book should prove of considerable value to policymakers, market participants, and other stakeholders."
- B. K. ZUTSHI
Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

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India's trade policy establishment is perceived to be somewhat wary of multilateral engagement, even though India is implementing substantial economic, and trade policy reforms. Some essays in this well-researched volume may throw light on this paradox. More important, the essays take a hard look at India's interests, and concerns with respect to international trade. They suggest ways that India could deploy its domestic reform agenda in the Doha Round negotiations, to secure concessions from its trading partners, while using multilateral engagement to reinforce the domestic reform process, and enhance the process' credibility.

The book should prove of considerable value to policymakers, market participants, and other stakeholders.

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