Agriculture, trade and regionalism in South Asia

Like many other regional groups, the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)--Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka--have taken steps toward forming a regional free trade area. Will the SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAP...

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Autores principales: DeRosa, Dean A., Govindan, Kumaresan
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157055
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description Like many other regional groups, the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)--Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka--have taken steps toward forming a regional free trade area. Will the SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) offer the substantial economic benefits, including food security, that South Asian leaders expect? This quantitative analysis compares the economic results of SAPTA with two other trade liberalization schemes, (1) more liberal trade between SAARC and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries, and (2) more liberal trade between SAARC and the world.
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spelling CGSpace1570552025-04-08T18:31:31Z Agriculture, trade and regionalism in South Asia DeRosa, Dean A. Govindan, Kumaresan international trade regional policies trade protection Like many other regional groups, the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)--Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka--have taken steps toward forming a regional free trade area. Will the SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) offer the substantial economic benefits, including food security, that South Asian leaders expect? This quantitative analysis compares the economic results of SAPTA with two other trade liberalization schemes, (1) more liberal trade between SAARC and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries, and (2) more liberal trade between SAARC and the world. 1995 2024-10-24T12:47:01Z 2024-10-24T12:47:01Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157055 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute DeRosa, Dean A.; Govindan, Kumaresan. 1995. Agriculture, trade and regionalism in South Asia. Food, agriculture, and the environment Discussion Paper; 2020 Discussion Paper 7. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157055
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Agriculture, trade and regionalism in South Asia
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regional policies
trade protection
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