An Open Services Regime - Recipe for Jobless Growth? – Suparna Karmakar
Commencement: October 2007
Completed: March 2008
This paper reviews India’s experience to understand how services sector liberalisation can generate welfare gains for developing countries, in particular vis-à-vis its employment generation potential. The analysis is based on India’s experience of an increasingly open service sector and reviews the different channels through which economic gains are garnered from openness to trade in services. The output of the study has been brought out as ICRIER WP 210
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ICRIER – SRTT Programme
SRTT had been supporting ICRIER’s research programme on WTO Issues since 2000.The core objective of the grant was to identify critical areas of policy interest for India in the Doha Round of negotiations, and to suggest policy changes and negotiating strategies to the Government of India as inputs for policy formulation. More…
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Trade in Energy Services
under GATS – Arpita Mukherjee and Ramneet
Goswami
The study analyzes recent developments in energy services
sector in the context of ongoing GATS negotiations.
It examines India’s trade and investment
prospects in energy services in the light of unilateral
domestic policy changes, and various domestic
and external constraints inhibiting trade. It
evaluates the scope for multilateral negotiations
in energy services and the implications of liberalization
for India’s energy sector. Finally, the
study recommends domestic policy reforms that
are necessary for supporting India’s negotiating
strategies at the WTO and the overall growth of
this services sector.
The study on the oil and gas sector was completed
in August 2005. The study on the power sector
has also been completed. ICRIER has conducted
research in other energy services such as mining
and nuclear energy as well. The study is supported
by Sir Ratan Tata Trust, the combined report will
be completed and published as an ICRIER Working
Paper.
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Globalization of Transport
Services: India’s Trade and Investment Prospects
– Arpita Mukherjee and Deepa Bhaskaran
The objective of this study is to discuss India’s
trade and investment prospects in the global transport
sector in the light of recent global and domestic
trends. It will discuss the nature and extent
of liberalization in the transport services sector
undertaken by India unilaterally or in the context
of various bilateral, regional and multilateral
agreements, and the measures required for India
to maximize the gains from future negotiations.
The study, supported by the Sir Ratan Tata Trust.
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Non-Tariff Market Access Barriers on Pharmaceutical and Electrical Machinery Exports from India - Suparna Karmakar, Shravani Prakash and Sumitra Ganguli
The most visible manifestation of globalisation in the last few decades has been in the hugely increased trade flows between countries, mostly in merchandise trade. However, a large number of barriers to free flow of trade still exist; non-tariff measures are increasingly being used creatively by trade partners to restrict access to legitimate imports from developing countries. India’s exports in particular face a large number of NTBs in most destinations.
The objective in this project was to create a database to facilitate market access by reducing transaction costs through eliminating information gap and compile trade data and related non-tariff information. The portal would be a free-access database and exporter helpdesk and be a practical hands-on tool for Indian exporters on the different non-tariff barriers prevalent in target markets.
The pilot project was an in-depth study covering the NTMs being faced by the Indian pharmaceutical sector and the electrical machinery industry in their exports to the EU, the US and GCC. This phase, in effect analysed NTBs faced by Indian exporters in 32 countries on 154 tariff lines at HS 6 digit level, in the above mentioned three regions that in turn consist of 32 individual countries. The research methodology used was primary surveys, secondary information from existing research papers and third country databases.
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