About Project

 

UNCTAD, India and the United Kingdom has launched of a new project to assess the impact and opportunities for India of trade and globalization.

 

The eight-year project is being founded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), in the amount of GBP 6.88 million.

 

Entitled “Strategies and Preparedness for Trade and Globalization in India”, the project has two main objectives. First it will assist Indian trade negotiators, policy makers and other stakeholders in understanding the development dimension of key trade issues, particularly as they related to the current WTO agenda. Secondly it will strengthen the country’s human and institutional capacities for analysis of globalization–related issues and facilitate a policy environment that will support and sustain a more equitable process of globalization. In the process, the project should help India derive the greatest possible benefits from the multilateral trading system and influence international trade rule making. The project will work in partnership with private sector and civil society. It will focus on institutions and sectors with the greatest potential to affect the poor in their roles as producers, workers, consumers and citizens.

 

The main issues for the project are:

 

·                     Agriculture and food security

·                     Non-agriculture market access, including textiles

·                     The TRIPS Agreement

·                     The impact of WTO agreements on small scale industries

·                     Services

·                     Environment

·                     Trade facilitation

·                     Dispute settlement

·                     Regional trade agreements

·                     Investments

·                     Competition