The Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) entered its second phase of implementation in 2008. The creation … of a free trade area is expected to affect its participants—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and … Sri Lanka—very differently given their diversity in terms of size, income, and structure of trade and protection. Using …

attention. Interest in this topic is motivated by the increasing presence of China in the region and the growing bilateral trade …

Standards and Regulation: Implications for Developing Countries / Julie A. Caswell; Food Safety Issues in International Trade … / Spencer Henson; Balancing Risk Reduction and Benefits from Trade in Setting Standards / John Wilson and Tsunehiro Otsuki; Case …

-distance trade with unknown partners. In the absence of grain standardization, public information, and legal contract enforcement …

production, but, again, meeting global demand for food will require even greater investments. And, in the areas of trade and …, each country's actions inevitably have implications for others, so areas of common interest must be identified and trade …