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Making food subsidies work better
Business
Standard, July 31, 2011
By Pradeep S Mehta
The ADB
study showed that the deserving poor in India received only
10 percent of the benefits from the system. The million
dollar question is whether the system can be reformed at
all. In my opinion, it is a Herculean task and well nigh
impossible. Given that the system functions with many vested
interests, efforts to reform it will be countered with
‘logical’ arguments by the polity, because the system feeds
on political patronage, and hence all parties are unanimous
in supporting it, like caste reservations in India.
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Preventing failure of Doha Development Agenda
Shanghai Daily, August 02, 2011
Doha Round: the best tool
The News,
Pakistan, July 31, 2011
Doha Round is best aid for trade tool
The Financial Express, Bangladesh, July 25, 2011
Doha Round is best aid for trade tool; Pascal Lamy must
mobilise members to negotiation table
Economic times, July 25, 2011
By Pradeep S Mehta
One of the
critical issues in the international trading system is the
Aid-for-Trade (AFT) programme which is to help poor
countries to enable them to access gains from trade
liberalisation through financial and technical assistance as
a standalone programme without mixing it with other aid
programmes. The elaborate third review conference on AFT was
organised at Geneva. What was sadly not mentioned in the
meeting was that the Doha Development Agenda which is the
best way forward to assist the poor to trade their way out
of poverty.
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Who Killed Tariffs? Modern Trade
Economic times, July 23, 2011
By Bipul
Chatterjee
Although
tariffs are trade-distorting, they are part-and-parcel of
the international trading system. But do they matter much in
today’s emerging regime of international trade where global
and regional value chains and associated factors determining
trade costs are gaining more importance Trade is about
relative competitiveness of competing products produced by
different firms.
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Making the case for NSE
The Financial Express, July 14, 2011
By Pradeep S Mehta
CCI grabbed
headlines and spurred numerous editorials in the financial
press when it levied a penalty of R55mn on NSE for abuse of
dominance. NSE was charged with leveraging its dominance in
one market to gain or protect its position of strength in
the other by way of fee waivers and exclusionary denial of
integrated market watch facility. Many have welcomed the
order as a good lesson for the largest bourse in the country
to deter it from engaging in anti-competitive practices,
while many have also argued that NSE did not enjoy a
position of dominance in the currency derivatives market and
the zero pricing model adopted by it was not indicative of
predatory pricing.
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