Format:
1 online resource (201 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415602099
,
9781135129842
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Content:
South Asia today is among the most unstable regions in the world riddled by both intra- and inter-state conflict. This book presents a comprehensive technical analysis of the trade-conflict relationship within the region, and explores how South Asia demonstrates underperformance of its potential for economic integration
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1 Introduction -- Regional cooperation in South Asia: SAARC, SAPTA and SAFTA -- Nature of conflict in South Asia: implications for regional economic integration -- Global context -- Organization of the book -- 2 South Asia: the region -- Economic profile -- Social development in South Asia -- Contrasts -- India's centrality -- 3 Trade and FDI patterns of South Asian countries -- Post-independence economic regimes in South Asia -- New economic policy regime -- Patterns and trends in trade and capital flows -- India's centrality in regional trade -- Role and quantum of informal trade -- Non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to trade in South Asia -- Capital Inflows in South Asia -- South-south FDI and South Asia -- Scope for production networks in South Asia -- 4 Preferential trading agreements in South Asia -- Trends in FTA formation: regional comparisons -- Motivating factors for entering into PTAs/FTAs -- South Asian context -- Regional trade agreements in South Asia -- Bilateral trade agreements -- Inter-sub-regional agreements -- Scope for reconciliation of overlap between FTAs and RTAs in South Asia -- 5 Conflict in South Asia -- Nature of conflict in South Asia -- Chronological sequence of conflict events and CBMs in South Asia -- Impact of conflict on bilateral trade: visual impressions -- 6 Theoretical foundations of the economic integration and conflict relationship in South Asia -- Theoretical foundations -- Empirical analysis and bi-directional causality -- 7 Impact of conflict on intra-regional trade in South Asia: A gravity model analysis -- The gravity model -- Conflict augmented gravity model: estimation results -- 8 Summary findings and an assessment of the way forward -- Summary findings -- Way forward -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Batra, Amita Regional Economic Integration in South Asia Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415602099
Language:
English
Keywords:
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