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Trade sanctions will harm the development process: Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati New Delhi, 16th December 2000: "The Government of India should take a proactive stance in taking the viewpoints of Indian NGOs in trade negotiations held at the multilateral levels as well as on economic policy issues relating to globalisation and liberalisation." This view was expressed by Prof Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University, USA, noted trade theory expert and favours public action through advocacy. Prof. Bhagwati was speaking on a panel discussion on "The Social Clause and Linkage at WTO: What is at Stake?" held at Hotel Le Meridien and organised by the CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment, a Jaipur-based rights advocacy group, working on international trade and economic policy issues. The meeting was organised as part of the CUTS-CITEE's programme, "Capacity Building on 'Linkage' between Trade and Non-trade Issues". Other speakers in the panel were Shri Vinod Vaish, Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Government of India, and Prof Muchkund Dubey, former Foreign Secretary of India. Shri Pradeep S. Mehta, Secretary General of CUTS moderated the discussions. The meeting was attended by more than 60 participants, representing civil society organisations, media, government officials, policy makers, academia, business organisations, and trade unions. Panelists and participants were unanimous in opposing the inclusion of social clauses into the World Trade Organisation, and expressed that overloading the WTO with non-trade issues will do more harms than good to the rule-based multilateral trading system. According to Prof Bhagwati and other panelists, adherence to core labour standards and the linkage between trade and labour standards are two separate issues, and the two should not be clubbed together. On the issue of economic liberalisation and globalisation, majority of the participants expressed that the Governments at the national as well as sub-national levels should device proactive policies to create opportunities so that the poor can get out of poverty. But, at the same time, the policies should also take into account measures relating to social safety nets so that the adjustment process is smooth. Some important news appeared in national daily newspapers, published from New Delhi:
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