Suparna Karmakar
Suparna Karmakar is an Indian citizen and a Marie Curie fellow at Bruegel from 2 May 2013 to 1 August 2014.
Her research interests include the multilateral trade negotiations versus regionalism, regulatory barriers and technical standards impeding multilateral and regional trade in goods and services, and market access (including trade facilitation) policy and negotiation issues arising therefrom. At Bruegel she will work on the future of trade multilateralism and the changing role of WTO as the premier multilateral trade negotiating forum.
Suparna holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University of New Delhi. In India Suparna has worked in renowned trade research institutes like the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and the Centre for WTO Studies (CWS), IIFT, while her international engagements have been as visiting fellow with the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (2009) and the ADB Institute, Tokyo (2010). Suparna has also worked as a Consultant on various Government of India-commissioned projects on preferential and multilateral service trade liberalisation, non-tariff barriers and other regulatory restrictions for market access in manufactured goods and services.
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EU to DO 2015-2019
Memos to the new EU leadership.
India torpedoes the Bali Trade Facilitation deal
Citing concerns over food security, after a Cabinet meeting headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, India reportedly decided a
Rulemaking in Super-RTAs: Implications for China and India
How super-RTAs may emerge as game changers in the multilateral trading system as promulgated by the WTO, and the implications for China and India
Life after Bali
Negotiating round the clock, World Trade Organisation (WTO) members successfully concluded an agreement on a mini-package at Bali MC9, on a package of
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Book
04 September 2014
EU to DO 2015-2019
Memos to the new EU leadership.
Blog post
29 July 2014
India torpedoes the Bali Trade Facilitation deal
Citing concerns over food security, after a Cabinet meeting headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, India reportedly decided a
Working paper
10 March 2014
Rulemaking in Super-RTAs: Implications for China and India
How super-RTAs may emerge as game changers in the multilateral trading system as promulgated by the WTO, and the implications for China and India
Blog post
08 January 2014
Life after Bali
Negotiating round the clock, World Trade Organisation (WTO) members successfully concluded an agreement on a mini-package at Bali MC9, on a package of
Blog post
08 January 2014
The protectionist dog that didn’t bark
Many trade safeguard actions have essentially protectionist and political motivations. Thus, the absence of sustained lobbying from the leading German
Video
20 December 2013
Video
09 December 2013
Policy Brief
04 December 2013
Life after Bali: renewing the world trade negotiating agenda
The crisis has contributed to a slowdown in global trade volumes, with trade virtually stagnant in the twelve months to July 2013. In this context, fr
Policy Brief
04 November 2013
Prospects for regulatory convergence under TTIP
This Policy Contribution was prepared for the European Union Committee's inquiry into the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Regulatory h
Blog post
05 September 2013
The future of world trade negotiations
Much will depend on the credible threat of ‘economically meaningful discriminatory outcome’ that the new mega-regionals can actually create.