In a volume aimed at all social scientists, economists and lawyers come together in Beyond the Transitional Phase of the WTO : An Indian Perspective on Emerging Issues to discuss topics ranging from the International Trade in Services including Telecommunications, Transport, Education and E-commerce to questions of compatibility between Obligations towards Environmental Protection and Social Concerns codified in international treaties and protocols and an International Trade Regime that promotes free trade. The contributors discuss current problems that affect India's agriculture like SPS-TBT, and Agricultural Subsidies as well as the issue of Seed Protection and Genetically Modified Crops. The volume also looks at problems and prospects of Indian industry in the face of the MFA phase-out and TRIPS. This projective volume not only projects future problems that will rise as India enters into an increasing number of Regional Trading Arrangements but also grapples with legal problems like India's experiences where Dispute Resolution at the WTO are concerned. The volume concludes with a discussion on the Singapore Issues like Trade Facilitation, Government Procurement and Competition Policy. The volume not only discusses the importance of these issues to India as well as the current ‘state of play’ but suggests the appropriate positions for India to take on all these issues at the WTO negotiations and other fora if a Global Agreement on an issue is not probable.

"This is a book dealing with all the issues concerning the place of India inside the WTO. In spite of complex and technical matters the authors have succeeded in producing a clear synthesis on all sectors. Of great interest is the historical perspective highlighting the changing views of India along the years, from defensive to more proactive and offensive strategies."

— Professor Frederic Landy

University of Paris X

"With the DDA (Doha Development Agenda) picking up steam, the WTO is even more topical and this is a comprehensive looking-forward, rather than looking-back, book. Almost every issue one can think of is covered, and there is a strong India perspective. The editors and the publisher should be complimented for putting such a volume together and the book retains topicality well after the Hong Kong Ministerial."

— Prof. Bibek Debroy

Director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for
Contemporary Studies (RGICS), New Delhi

The book "is unique in many ways. It is possibly the most comprehensive volume that views (from an Indian viewpoint) those issues that affect trade as well as the regime that governs international trade the final shape of which is yet to be decided. The volume looks beyond Hong Kong. In that sense this volume stands out. The range of issues covered and the manner in which they are done make them accessible to non-specialists but their projective nature and the fact that many of the topics covered are new ensure that they are of great interest to researchers and policy makers."

— Prof. Manoj Pant

Centre of International Trade and
Development, J.N.U., New Del

Dipankar Sengupta is Fellow (Economics) at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. Prior to this, he taught economics at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was educated at the University of Calcutta and at the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University and his areas of interest include International Political Economy, Industrial Organisation Theory and Indian Economic Development and has published extensively on these subjects.

Debashis Chakraborty is Research Associate at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi. He was educated at the University of Calcutta and at the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University and his areas of interest include International Trade, the interface between Law and Economics and Indian Economic Development. He has presented and published papers at various academic and policy forums in India and abroad.

Pritam Banerjee was formerly a Trade Policy analyst with the Confederation of Indian Industry. He has also been with the World Bank as a consultant in Washington DC. He was educated at Illinois Wesleyan University, London School of Economics and the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His primary interests include GATS, International Services Supply Chains and Trade Facilitation in Services