'India must be more proactive in WTO'.

(From Business Line)

New Delhi, Feb. 22 - INDIA should take "a much more proactive and constructive engagement" in the negotiating processes of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), currently under way, by persisting with its "liberalising" approach domestically in all key areas including agriculture, according to Lead Economist of the Development Research Group, World Bank, Mr Aaditya Mattoo.

Mr Mattoo, who was here for the release of a book on "India and the WTO" which he edited along with Mr Robert Stern, University of Michigan, a joint publication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press, told Business Line in an interview that more recent research suggests of an interesting paradox on India's stand on agriculture. "On the one …