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    India-Sri Lanka bilateral free trade agreement: six years performance and beyond

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    India-Sri Lanka Bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in 1998 was a pioneering attempt in the direction of trade liberalisation in South Asian region. This paper examines the performance of the Agreement in the first six years of its coming into being and draws lessons from its success that could be relevant in the context of South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) and other such initiatives.
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    Economic growth in South Asia: role of infrastructure

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2008
    South Asia has become one of the fastest growing regions in the world, accounting for nearly one quarter of world population and 40 per cent of the world’s poor. Infrastructure development, both economic and social, is one of the major determinants of economic growth, particularly in developing countries.
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    Savings behaviour in South Asia

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2008
    Economic growth is among the most important factors affecting the quality of life that a people lead in a country. Given the close relation between savings and growth, the analysis of savings behaviour becomes naturally important in this context. Yet, a comprehensive analysis of the savings behaviour for many of the South Asian countries is missing
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    Geographical indications at the WTO: an unfinished agenda

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    Over the recent past, Geographical Indication (GI) has emerged as one of the most contentious categories of intellectual property (IP). Two among the three TRIPS issues presently under discussion at the WTO pertain to GIs, the third being the relationship between the TRIPS and the CBD.
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    Regional economic integration in South Asia: prospects and challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Realising its importance, the South Asian region has also embarked upon various processes of regional economic integration. However, the South Asian regional integration process is fraught with difficulties, especially due to a lack of understanding about the very economics of regional economic integration.
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    Regional cooperation for regional infrastructure development: challenges and policy options for South Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Regional infrastructure is one of the major determinants of economic integration process. It enhances international and regional connectivity through the free flow of goods and factors across borders, allowing countries to benefit from a better relocation of resources.
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    A legally binding agreement (LBA) - growing need for air pollution reduction and control in South Asia

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011
    Environmental degradation remains a challenge in most South Asian countries. With increased industrial activity, the exponential growth in number of vehicles and population, the contribution of each country to the south Asia regional air pollution is expected to increase over time.
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    Air pollution reduction and control in South Asia

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    With increasing urbanisation and economic growth, air pollution is becoming an urgent concern in South Asian countries Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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    Fighting corruption in South Asia: building accountability

    Transparency International, 2014
    Hardly a speech is delivered in South Asia without mention of the need to fight corruption in the region. Yet despite the lofty promises, corruption is on the rise. This report shows how a serious lack of political will on the part of governments to make laws work, means that government action to fight corruption is largely ineffective.
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    Child Marriage in South Asia

    Center for Food Safety, 2013
    Child marriage is a human rights crisis occurring on an alarming scale in South Asia. South Asia accounts for almost half of all child marriages that occur globally. Child marriage does not constitute a single rights violation; rather, every instance of it triggers a continuum of violations that continues throughout a girl’s life.

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