This paper discusses trade facilitation in the context of enhancing trading links between South and Southeast Asia, in a manner understandable to the non-specialist. Presently, these two Asian regions tend to trade preferentially with distant markets. One of the reasons cited for the limited...

This paper examines the seaports responsible for handling the majority of trade around the Bay of Bengal and identifies the projects that will enable trade and contribute to improving maritime infrastructure. It reviews the nature, potential evolution, and primary types of maritime trade around...

This volume examines the dichotomy between the two faces of South Asia - one poverty stricken and lagging in development, the other highly urbanized and growing rapidly - and tries to find a workable solution to bridge this gap. It looks at the many policy and institutional constraints that...

Partnership and cooperation remain the essence of United Nations 2030 (UN2030) Agenda. However, the regional cooperation framework often lacks comprehensive economic analysis and estimation of probabilistic impacts of any country's socio-economic and environmental activities on the people and...

South Asia is one of the densely populated regions of the world. A disaster in the nature of nuclear accident in one country will have a significant impact on the life and livelihood of large population across the region. Currently, major economies in South Asia are expanding their nuclear...

Although the Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) was signed in January 2004, it has not substantially contributed to the expansion of regional trade among its contracting states. This article shows how a number of bilateral preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between SAFTA parties...