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; SAARC ; South and Southeast Asia ; connectivity ; regional cooperation and integration ; production network …
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the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) reveals that the extremely skewed balance of power within the … the situation, SAARC's member countries need to repair the prevailing atmosphere of distrust and suspicion, and build … cordial inter-state relations. They also need to empower the SAARC Secretariat to function as a competent and neutral …
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People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea in East Asia; and the other three economies of Australia, India …
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 has led to the independence of fifteen new states. Twelve of these, including Ukraine, joined the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) whose goal was to form a common economic space with free movement of goods, labor and capital. Twenty five years...
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I develop an index for economic integration accounting for its gradual and bilateral nature: the Gradual And Bilateral Integration (GABI) index. The graduality captures differences in the depth and path of five stages in economic integration and is an improvement over the use of binary dummy...
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The emergence of production networks has changed the structure of international trade, which a large share of intra-regional trade flows and the rising value of intermediate goods trade or network trade between countries within the same region reflect. While a production network exists in both...
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Social protection, especially health care systems for the poor, is essential to reduce inequality. Health-related shocks, such as death or severe sickness, can affect households' budgets significantly and create serious household trauma, leading to higher possibilities of them falling into...
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The preferential trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Iran on mutual trade entered into force in October 2019. In this report we estimate its expected impact at aggregate and sectoral levels using the gravity model of trade based on the global sample of bilateral trade...
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