The growth of digital trade is dependant upon greater interconnectivity across borders. Several countries strive to achieve such interconnectivity and integration in digital trade through international trade agreements. Digital trade integration is a complex, multidimensional process that...

A complete economic integration can offer better standard of living with common trade policy, single currency, common monetary policy, together with a single fiscal policy, including common tax and benefit rates, complete harmonization of all policies, rates, and economic trade rules. Thus a...

The study attempts to analyse India's trade potential with other SAARC member states under the SAFTA agreement by means of the augmented gravity model, at annual frequency from 1992 to 2019 in general and from 2004 to 2019 in particular. The findings of this paper prove that the intra-regional...

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...

SAARC has so far not succeeded to make use of regional cooperation and integration especially in terms of unleashing potential of intra-regional trade to spur regional economic growth, employment and poverty reduction. The cost of non-cooperation among the member countries of SAARC result in...