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  Understanding Mountain Poverty in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas : Regional Report for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011

  Around 211 million people reside in the greater Himalayan region, but there is a lack of cohesive information on their socioeconomic status. In general, issues such as whether, how, and why mountain poverty differs from national poverty remain unaddressed. This report attempts to identify, understand, and statistically substantiate the specificity of mountain poverty.
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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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  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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  Restoring Afghanistan- Pakistan-India-Bangladesh- Myanmar (APIBM) corridor: towards a new silk road in Asia

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007

  One of the impediments to deeper regional cooperation in South Asia is the lack of integrated transportation linkages in the region. Absence of adequate and active overland official trade outlets and associated facilities coupled with lack of trade facilitation policy measures. An uninterrupted
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  Logistics, trade and production networks: an empirical investigation

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013

  Logistics services contribute to not only expansion in trade and production networks within or across countries but also help to build countries’ productive capacities.
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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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  Them belly full (but we hungry): Food rights struggles in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Mozambique

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  This report synthesises the findings from the four country case studies produced for the Food Riots and Food Rights project. It is intended as a summary introduction to the main findings of the research, and a preliminary comparative analysis across the four cases.
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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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