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Item type:Item, Of International Trade, Climate Change, Investment and a Prosperous Future(NLUJ, 2020) Leal-Arcas, Rafael; Balzano, Samuel; Deethae, Jakkrit; Singh, Tanvir; Skybova, KristinaA transformative, integrated, and holistic approach to sustainability is necessary to reach a prosperous future for all. With growing inequality in the world, demographic changes, rapid technological development, and 40% of the world’s population with no access to digital technology, access to digital technology for all and, ultimately, having a prosperous future is a must today. Doing so will give a voice to the voiceless. For that, governments, companies, and transnational institutions should invest as much as possible to make it happen and provide solutions that are rules-based, inclusive, innovative, disruptive, and simple. We, the citizens, should push for this human right to materialise. That way, everyone will benefit and no one will fall behind. We argue that access to energy, mitigating climate change, and benefiting from international trade and investment, all can be achieved thanks to technological advancement. These global challenges are complex, interconnected, multidimensional, interdependent, and multi-causal.Item type:Item, Framing a Multilateral Trade and Innovation Agenda to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals: The Intellectual Property Dimension(NLUJ, 2020) Taubman, AntonyThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) establish a framework for a broad-based and ambitious approach to multilateral cooperation for development. Even to approach fulfilment of these goals will require innovation and the effective application of the fruits of innovation in many areas of technology — notably energy, health and agriculture. Equally, the SDGs foresee an open trading system as integral to sustainable development. Linking trade and innovation with sustainable development represents, thus, a pressing priority for international cooperation, and raises direct practical questions about the effective use of the intellectual property (IP) system that is expected to serve at once as an element of a socially beneficial trading system, and as an element of an effective innovation system. Therefore, fulfilling the SDGs foresees an effective three-way linkage between trade policy, the innovation ecosystem, and the IP system. Innovation opens up new and more accessible avenues for international trade by, for instance, enabling some Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to reach out to global markets for the first time. Equally, international trade can contribute to the development of innovative capacity, for instance, through knowledge spill overs and access to inputs for innovation. Additionally, IP systems can contribute to a positive interaction between trade and innovation in support of economic and social development. These linkages are complex, in constant evolution, and show great diversity across different sectors and economies, while also requiring extensive collaborative networks across national jurisdictions. Given that the SDGs are established as a framework for multilateral cooperation, meeting them will not only require technological innovation and effective access to the fruits of innovation, but also continuing innovation in multilateral cooperation and governance. The COVID-19) pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the critical role of innovation systems for fundamental public welfare, and has highlighted the diversity of policy measures countries have deployed to ensure both innovation and effective access to the fruits of innovation.Item type:Item, In Sickness and In Health: Navigating Trade in a Post-Pandemic World(NLUJ, 2020) Pareek, Amogh; Govindrajan, GautamiItem type:Item, Aid for Trade in Services: Definition, Magnitude and Effects(NLUJ, 2020) Shingal, AnirudhThis paper reviews findings from recent literature on the trade effects of Aidfor-Trade (AfT) which has now begun to examine the impact of this aid on services trade in a significant departure from only looking at merchandise trade and investment. The paper also discusses the major transmission channels for the trade-enhancing effects of AfT and considers both direct and spill-over effects of AfT on services trade. Recent work suggests that AfT allocated to services activities may be effective in enhancing services exports of small value exporting countries, which is a significant finding from the perspective of the objective of AfT disbursement. It also provides scope for export diversification, global value chain (GVC) integration and enhancing firm productivity in recipient countries.Item type:Item, Situating India’s Mode 4 Commitments in Geopolitics and Political Economy: The Case of GATS 2000 Proposal, IndiaSingapore CECA and India-ASEAN TiS(NLUJ, 2020) Tewari, Sunanda; Bhardwaj, PrakharIndia has always sought to exploit its export potential in ‘Mode 4’ of delivery of services involving the movement of natural persons. However, it has not been able to realise its offensive interest in Mode 4 services exports due to legal, economic, political, and geopolitical factors. This Article seeks to contextualise pivotal moments in the formulation of India’s Mode 4 strategy by situating these negotiating stances against larger political and geopolitical phenomena. It focuses on India’s ambitious proposal tabled in November 2000 which suggested comprehensive amendments to GATS and demanded significant changes in immigration and labour laws. Rather than viewing this proposal as a result of the growth in IT exports in 1995-2000, this Article argues that the proposal should be understood as a continuation of a process that started in the mid-1980s which involved the Indian state playing a more open and proactive role in the growth of the IT sector. The Article then shifts its focus to the chapter on Mode 4 in the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement. This chapter is contextualized by India’s Look East Policy. It traces the economic and geopolitical factors that led to the negotiation of the free trade agreement and the overwhelming anti-immigration sentiment which ultimately led to its undoing. Lastly, the India-ASEAN Trade in Services Agreement is evaluated. While this agreement fulfilled the geopolitical ambitions of the Look East Policy, it failed to improve the level of services liberalisation set out in the GATS. We argue that the India-ASEAN Trade in Services Agreement demonstrates the costs of an excessive focus on geopolitics during the negotiation of free trade agreements.