Economic integration is the result of non discrimination between the goods and services of different countries and territory. With the loose application of multilateralism, regional integration of economy was propelled in different nook and corner of the earth. European Union is the paragon of...

As Globalisation and regionalism gained its momentum from the beginning of 1980s and the gain from open trade is realised by the pioneer East Asian nations (especially, the ASEAN countries), the South Asian countries also tried to catch up with the stream under the banner of South Asian...

Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years.These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of "trade first,money later", recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...