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Agriculture has been a major occupation of the Indian people since ancient times. Today 65% of the population is dependent on agriculture in various ways. The backbone of agriculture, once considered the backbone of the Indian economy, is crumbling today. The main reason for this is the neglect of agriculture by the government system and the newly started process of globalization.The rural economy that has survived is now on the brink of collapse due to the globalization process in agriculture, which is the only component of agriculture. By signing the WTO Agreement on January 1, 1995, India incorporated the agricultural sector into the process of globalization. In this regard, a secret agreement was reached between India and the United States on December 16, 1999, and India had to lift the numerical restrictions on its protected 715 agricultural commodities. The concept of globalization has been realized through the GATT Agreement, the Dunkel Proposal, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

Die russischen Beitrittsverhandlungen zur Welthandelsorganisation (World Trade Organization, WTO), die sich bereits seit 16 Jahren hinziehen, nähern sich ihrem Abschluss. Sowohl offizielle Einschätzungen als auch russische und internationale Experten gehen davon aus, dass Russland bis Ende dieses Jahres Mitglied der WTO werden kann. Die Bedingungen des Beitritts sind bereits im Wesentlichen vereinbart. Sie bedeuten für die russische Wirtschaft kurzfristig kaum Veränderungen und können mittelfristig die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit russischer Firmen verbessern.

Die russischen Beitrittsverhandlungen zur Welthandelsorganisation (World Trade Organization, WTO), die sich bereits seit 16 Jahren hinziehen, nähern sich ihrem Abschluss. Sowohl offizielle Einschätzungen als auch russische und internationale Experten gehen davon aus, dass Russland bis Ende dieses Jahres Mitglied der WTO werden kann. Die Bedingungen des Beitritts sind bereits im Wesentlichen vereinbart. Sie bedeuten für die russische Wirtschaft kurzfristig kaum Veränderungen und können mittelfristig die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit russischer Firmen verbessern.

The article describes the political and economic contradictions underlying the Seattle conference of the WTO. He outlines that the US aimed at a further liberalization of world markets in order to stabilize the national economy which is exposed increasingly to threats of financial instability. The Anti-WTO movement is fragmented; three major parts exist: labour movement, the greens and the internationalists. As O'Conner points out the discussion between these different movements were dominated by considerable differences of opinion; further more labour and the greens face free rider problems, which hamper building up an independent Anti-WTO movement. (Prokla / FUB)

Economists offer rigorous quantitative analyses of how the institutional design and purpose of the WTO (and its progenitor, the GATT) affect economic development.The World Trade Organization (WTO) was established partly to support economic development in developing countries through international trade. This goal has been elusive, with some questioning the WTO's ability to achieve such a goal. In this volume, leading scholars in the economics of international trade offer rigorous quantitative analyses of how the institutional design and purpose of the WTO (and its progenitor, the GATT) affect economic development. The volume begins with analyses of market access concessions that have been or could be exchanged between developing and developed countries, from a formal framework for incorporating non-tariff measures into a model for analyzing a multilateral trade agreement to an examination of the MFN (most-favored nation) free rider problem. Contributors then develop new theoretical and econometric approaches for understanding key aspects of trade liberalization under the GATT/WTO that are of particular relevance to economic development, considering such topics as achieving cooperation in eliminating prohibitive trade barriers and the effect of China's export subsidies on its dramatic growth in exports. Finally, the book considers two significant new issues that arose from the Uruguay round, from which the WTO was formed: the TRIPS agreement, regulating intellectual property; and the resolution of trade disputes with and without litigation. Taken together, these analyses shed new light on the relationship between trade liberalization and economic development as well as the WTO's effectiveness.

Practical Aspects of WTO Litigation' is a complete, real-life account of World Trade Organization?s (WTO?s) dispute settlement procedures. This book explains and identifies the practices that are normally followed by disputing parties when using the WTO?s dispute settlement understanding (DSU) entered into force in 1995. Since then, it has spawned an extensive body of jurisprudence, making it a highly complex system to navigate. This book is the first in-depth practical guide to resolving a dispute at the WTO, edited by an international lawyer, who has hands-on experience in WTO litigation. Contributors identify the best practices and suggest potential areas for improvement of the dispute settlement mechanism from their respective points of view

The comparison between the basic set of legal WTO documents statements and the Russian praxis after joining this organization will allow to answer the burning questions: how the WTO membership impacts on the economic – first of all, the industrial policy, on the domestic enterprises' activity, on the home market situation; if there are high risks emerging from the abatement in import fees; if the wide-scale collapse is inevitable, and many other.