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How far institutions like WTO and IMF have influenced India’s political and economic sovereignty? What has been India’s response to these?

  • UPSC 2005
  • India and the Global South

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Stephen D. Krasner (Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy, 1999) separates a state's authority from its control. The WTO and the IMF have never touched India's authority: no programme or ruling has altered its constitution, franchise or foreign policy. What they have limited, mostly in moments of weakness, is India's control over economic policy; how far depends on…

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  • The IMF: episodic conditionality
  • The WTO: lasting legal limits
  • Two readings
  • India's response
  • Conclusion
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