WTO and Asian Union

Contents: WTO and Asian union: an overview/Raj Kumar Sen and John Felix Raj. I. Ten years of WTO: Section I: 1. WTO Agreements and India\'s challenges/A. Ranga Reddy. 2. WTO after ten years and large developing economies like India/Raj Kumar Sen. 3. WTO--From Marrakesh to Cancun and Beyond/Dhanpat Ram Agarwal. 4. Opening the market and its impact on India/Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay. 5. WTO and Indian economy: a critical analysis/Prabir Biswas and Sudeshna Biswas. 6. WTO: a club of rich countries/K. Nageswara Rao. 7. WTO and economic interest of the developing countries/Gunendra Prasad Pal. 8. IPR and the developing countries/Sharanjit S. Dhillon. 9. TRIPs and the strength of the IPRs in India/Ruchi Sharma and K.K. Saxena. 10. WTO and the inequality among its member countries/Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay and Ratan Kumar Ghosal. 11. WTO--Distortions and asymmetries for Asian countries/S. Michael John Peter. Section II. WTO and agriculture: 12. Sustainable agriculture in India--challenges and WTO Regime/Dhulasi Birundha Varadarajan and K. Arockia Raj. 13. WTO and Indian agriculture in International perspective/Aparajita Mukherjee. 14. WTO and Indian agriculture/R.Y. Mahore. 15. WTO and India\'s agriculture: problems and prospects/Prankrishna Pal. 16. WTO and agricultural subsidies/Mrinal Kumar Dasgupta. 17. Indian agriculture and the WTO: some issues/Subir Mukhopadhyay. 18. Indian agriculture during the WTO Regime/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 19. Indian agriculture under WTO Framework/Tapati Sanyal. 20. WTO and its impact on Indian agriculture/Anjali P. Kulkarni. 21. India\'s agricultural exports and WTO/M. Giribabu and P. Sivakumar. 22. WTO and agricultural exports from India/R. Haridoss. 23. WTO\'s AOA and emerging economic monopoly/D.P. Pal. 24. India\'s role at WTO for agricultural products/S.S. Kothari. Section III. GATS and Indian financial sector: 25. GATS-2000 and the Indian financial sector/K.M. Bhattacharya. 26. GATS and India\'s financial services/Ram Pratap Sinha and Nitish Datta. Section IV. Various impacts of WTO after ten years: 27. WTO and its impact on India\'s environment/Somnath Hazra and Raj Kumar Sen. 28. WTO and environmental and labour standards/Asis Das Gupta. 29. Textile industry in developing countries under WTO/P.K. Bhatt, Subadra Ragonathan and Dinesh J. Dhankani. 30. WTO and transport and communication sectors in Haryana/Naveen Sharma. 31. Small scale industry in India in pre and post WTO scenario/P. Srinivas Subbarao. 32. WTO and small scale industries in India/N. Namasivayam. 33. Rural industrialisation in India and WTO/Debashis Mondal and Sachinandan Sau. 34. WTO and Indian export: emerging scenario/Achal Kumar Gaur. 35. WTO and trade and aid factors in Kenya/Purna Samanta. II. WTO and bilateral relations: Section V. Bilateral and other relationships and WTO: 36. India-ASEAN Trade Relations during Post-WTO period/Ranjit Singh Ghuman and Davinder Kumar Madaan. 37. Post-Cancun Agenda for SAARC in the Context of AOA/V.B. Jugale. 38. Trade among SAARC countries: present and future/S. Iyyampillai. 39. WTO and border trade between North-Eastern Region of India and Bangladesh/Binita Tamuli Barman. 40. WTO and regional economic integration: an Indo-China perspective/G.M. Bhat. 41. China and India in the context of WTO: Challenges and opportunities/Harshada Shantilal Rathod. 42. Historical trade relation between Sri Lanka and India and its modern relevance/Ratan Lal Basu. 43. Portfolio analysis of Indo Sri Lankan trade/P. James Daniel Paul. 44. Indo-Sri Lanka trade partner partnership/Suvranshu Pan. 45. India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement: implications for Kerala/M. Reghunathan. VI. WTO and towards an Asian Union: 46. WTO and an emerging hope for Asian Union: prospects and implications/K.K. Kaushik and Sanju Karol. 47. Regional cooperation in the South Asian region--a preliminary exploration/Anjali Jain. 48. Ten years of WTO and towards an Asian Union/K. Alamar and N. Murali. 49. Asian economic integration: gateway to prosperity/Paramjeet Kaur and Kuldip Kaur. 50. Feasibility of South Asia Free Trade Union: An economic dissection/Sandhya Rani Das and R.P. Sarma. 51. The WTO and Asian Union: challenges and opportunities/Sakiya Khan. 52. Asian Union--An arc of advantages for Asian countries/M.G. Basava Raja. 53. Asian Union: the post-globalisation prospects/Debotpal Goswami. 54. Complementarities in production and trade prospects of Asian Union/Paramjit Nanda and P.S. Raikhy. 55. The impact of the WTO on the Asian Union/Subhash Biswas. 56. WTO and Agri-business: an Asian Union for dairy sector/I. Francis Gnana Sekar. 57. An Asian Monetary Union via RTA Route/M.B. Mohandas. 58. WTO Regime and Asian countries/Mrunalini Fadnavis. 59. WTO and Asia/John Felix Raj. Index. 

"World Trade Organisation (WTO) completed its first decade of existence in 2005. Originally conceived as an institution for creating an uniform code of conduct among its member-countries, WTO is to facilitate and promote the quantity and quality of international trade with the belief that trade is the engine of growth. It has also accelerated the pace of globalization throughout the world in terms of increasing volume of world trade. The neo-liberal ideas of free trade have swept the world, where the WTO has acted as the main vehicle in this process. 

After its first ten years it is now high time to have a look at the world economies and specially the developing ones to access the gains and losses obtained due to the WTO operations.

On the whole, this book gives the readers an exhaustive and analytical view of the salient features of the WTO regime experienced in the first decade of its existence both generally and also in a sector specific manner. As the results are not satisfactory for the developing South in general and for South Asian countries in particular, the possibilities and potential of the formation of an Asian Union in the near future has been discussed in detail. This book is expected to be of great interest and importance not only to the researchers and academicians but also to the policy-makers and general readers interested in the activities of the WTO." (jacket)