ONGOING - WTO Related
Issues
‘Lessons from India ’s experience in the WTO: How should India prepare for the post-Doha WTO?’ - Suparna Karmakar
Commencement: March 2008
This paper examines changing governance patterns in international trade in the post-World War II era, focusing on the efficacy and implications of the use of alternative mechanisms in resolving conflicts, from an Indian perspective. In considering the evolution of these different arrangements in international trade, it considers four elements: agenda setting, the strategic interaction among actors over various issues, the implementation of these arrangements to alter national actions, and the effort to cope with violations of various types of institutional arrangements.
The paper tries to identify the role and responsibilities of emerging powers like India in the governance of a post-Doha Round WTO. This policy-oriented analysis and research on trade governance issues will include but not be restricted to, new modalities of coalitions and negotiations, monitoring and surveillance, dispute settlement, technical assistance and capacity building, and trade and climate change.
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Viability of Alternative Frameworks for Agricultural Trade Negotiations- Surabhi Mittal
Commencement: August 2008
This study attempts to make a constructive contribution to unblocking progress in the liberalisation and reform of international trade in agriculture. The present "single undertaking" approach to multilateral trade negotiations in the WTO has failed to deliver timely liberalisation or rules reform in both agricultural trade and in the many other areas encompassed by the Doha Round mandate. This research project will identify and test approaches to agricultural trade negotiations different from that currently being pursued in Geneva at the WTO in the hope that one or more of these alternative approaches can produce timely and meaningful results. This projects is a collaborative project between Australia, India , China , Indonesia and Brazil .
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