The study suggests an approach to reduce India's sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India's sensitive list with the corresponding RCAs of the SAARC countries. Four categories of items are generated based on...

This paper quantifies the trade creation effects of South Asia's trade agreements within the region and with the rest of the world. The paper uses an extensive database of bilateral trade covering the manufacturing, agriculture, and service sectors in 190 countries over 1990-2015. The estimates...

This paper quantifies the trade creation effects of South Asia's trade agreements within the region and with the rest of the world. The paper uses an extensive database of bilateral trade covering the manufacturing, agriculture, and service sectors in 190 countries over 1990-2015. The estimates...