Coordinator- Prof. K.J.Joseph

UNCTAD, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India and the Department for International Development (DFID), the United Kingdom have launched a project entitled “Strategies and Preparedness for Trade and Globalization in India” (SPTGI) to assess the impact and opportunities for India of trade and globalization. In this venture, UNCTAD India is partnered with Centre for Development Studies (CDS) with the objective of strengthening the country’s human and institutional capacities for analysis of globalization–related issues and to facilitate a policy environment that will support and sustain a more equitable process of globalization. The programme has the twin objective of generating capacity to articulate various challenges being posed under the new trading regime under WTO and to come up with ways and means of exploiting various opportunities opened under the new disposition.

Major activities initiated by the Centre under this programme are

Post doctoral and doctoral fellowships
Training Programs
National Seminars
Research on Trade related issues
Open Seminars/Public Lectures
Building up the trade related resource base at CDS library