Regionalism Debate: Repositioning SAFTA

dc.creator	Kelegama, Saman
dc.creator	Adhikari, Ratnakar
dc.date.accessioned	2018-06-07T05:57:04Z
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dc.date.available	2018-06-07T05:57:04Z
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dc.date.created	2018-06-07T05:57:04Z
dc.date.issued	2005
dc.description.abstract	Critics have pointed out that there is no rationale for a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) in South Asia because there are limited complementarities in the region; major trading partners of the individual South Asian countries are located in the West etc. The latest World Bank report on the South Asia’s trade argues that an RTA in South Asia will lead to substantial trade diversion than trade creation and considers an RTA in the region as a stumbling bloc to multilateral trade liberalization. This argument needs re-examination and for this purpose it will be worthwhile first to revisit the theoretical debate on regionalism. This is done in the Section II followed by a discussion in Section III on the South Asian perspective of an RTA. Some concluding remarks are made in Section IV.
dc.identifier	http://172.16.21.42/handle/123/105
dc.identifier	South Asia Journal, No. 7, 2005; pp. 117-127
dc.identifier.uri	http://172.16.30.46:4000/handle/789/4620
dc.language	en
dc.subject	Regional Trade Agreements
dc.subject	Trade
dc.subject	SAARC
dc.subject	Regionalism
dc.subject	RTAs
dc.title	Regionalism Debate: Repositioning SAFTA
dc.type	Article

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