Consumer & Social Issues

  • Human Rights and International Trade: Right Cause with Wrong Intentions (CITEE: No. 3/2001)
    Co-authored with Sandeep Singh
    This Briefing Paper on human rights and international trade focuses on the desirability, practicality and effectiveness of the human rights clauses at the WTO.
  • Eradicating Child Labour while Saving the Child – Who Will Pay the Costs? (CITEE: No. 5/1999)
    Co-authored with Dr. Basudeb Guha and Manish Agarwal
    This Briefing Paper examines the issue of costs of displacing child labour as well as the effectiveness of trade restricting measures as a means of eradicating child labour.
  • Overdue Reforms in European Agriculture – Implications for Southern Consumers (CITEE: No. 6/1999)
    Co-authored with Bipul Chatterjee
    This Briefing Paper reviews the history of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), its objectives, the 1992 reforms, Agenda 2000 reforms, and overall, their implications for Southern consumers.
  • An Integrated Consumer Policy – The Rational Base for Protecting Consumers (CUTS: No. 3/1996)
    This Briefing Paper examines the need for an integrated consumer policy and suggests the basic outline for one.
  • Curbing Inflation and Rising Prices – The Need for Price Monitoring
    (CUTS: No. 5/1996)
    Co-authored with Ch. Diwakar Babu
    This Briefing Paper attempts an appraisal of the economic liberalisation programme and argues that for reforms with a human face, it is imperative that there be an adequate system for monitoring prices, not controlling them.
  • DPGs, Toxic Waste and Dirty Industries – Partners in Flight (CUTS: No. 11/1996)
    Co-authored with Bipul Chatterjee
    This Briefing Paper argues about the need for equitable regulation for the sake of the “global” environment and humanity.
  • Greening Consumer Choice? – Environmental Labelling and the Consumer (CUTS: No. 4/1995)
    Co-authored with Phillip Evans
    This Briefing Paper looks at the issues raised by environmental labelling schemes. It also looks at the various types of environmental labelling schemes in operation and discusses their relationship with sustainable consumption and trade.
  • Access to the Constitution – A Neglected Right (CUTS: No. 1/1995)
    Co-authored with Subir Bannerji
    This Briefing Paper examines a few key judgements and concludes by advocating why a comprehensive amendment to Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution is necessary to give proper meaning to the same and empower citizens fully.
  • Why a Consumer Policy? (CUTS: No. 10/1995)
    This Briefing Paper examines the need for an integrated consumer policy and suggests the basic outline for one.

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