Papers presented at National Seminar on "BIMSTEC: Towards a Bay of Bengal Economic Community", held at Vishakhapatnam, India in 2005; articles chiefly with reference to the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral Techno-Economic Cooperation, a combined initiative of South and Southeast Asian...

This paper investigates whether the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISLFTA) has had trade creation or trade diversion effects on the rest of the World. The method used resembles the one used by Romalis (2005) to study NAFTA. In order to use the variations in tariff at the product level, we...