SAARC — From Association to Community: a Small Country Economic Perspective

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dc.creatorKelegama, Saman
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dc.date.created2018-02-21T12:15:07Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractThis essay has given a small country perspective of SAFTA and a more advanced level of economic cooperation in the region. The essay identified four broad areas as major areas of concern for a small member country: (a) political commitment; (b) market access; (c) safeguarding domestic producers; and (c~ trade and investment supporting policies. The concerns in these areas have to be effectively addressed in order to reap the benefits of a PTA or FTA. At present, the domestic policy support for SAFTA remains lukewarm. As long as this is the case, initiatives by the political establishment for regional cooperation will continue to be ambiguous, sporadic, and fragmented, leading to a ’stop and go’ pattern of regional cooperation in SAARC. In such patterns of cooperation, SAARC growth in terms of regional institutional development and programme implementation will remain uncertain, and the organisation’s life cycle will oscillate between short-lived euphoria and agonisingly protracted stalemates.
dc.identifierhttp://172.16.21.42/handle/123/36
dc.identifierSouth Asian Survey, 6 (2), 1999; pp. 259-270
dc.identifier.urihttp://172.16.30.46:4000/handle/789/4629
dc.languageen
dc.subjectSAARC
dc.subjectTrade
dc.subjectSAFTA
dc.titleSAARC — From Association to Community: a Small Country Economic Perspective
dc.typeArticle
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