To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

Historically, industrialized countries dominated trade negotiations from the establishment of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) through the lengthy Uruguay Round (UR) negotiations in the 1980s and 1990s. These negotiations established the World Trade Organization (WTO)-the GATT's...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bangladesh -- 3. Sri Lanka -- 4. Pakistan -- 5. India -- Index -- Box -- Figures -- Tables.