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Trade Facilitation Issues in South Asia

In: Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia

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  • Deshal de Mel
  • Suwendrani Jayaratne
  • Dharshani Premaratne

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This book considers the leadership of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the interaction with civil society in the process of South Asian regional cooperation and integration, and discusses how the emerging urgency in the provision of regional public goods provides an excellent opportunity to add to the successes in South Asian regional integration.

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  • Deshal de Mel & Suwendrani Jayaratne & Dharshani Premaratne, 2012. "Trade Facilitation Issues in South Asia," Chapters, in: Sultan Hafeez Rahman & Sridhar Khatri & Hans-Peter Brunner (ed.), Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia, chapter 4, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. World Bank, 2008. "Trade and Transport Facilitation in South Asia : Systems in Transition, Volume 1. Summary and Main Report," World Bank Publications - Reports 19480, The World Bank Group.
    2. Simeon Djankov & Caroline Freund & Cong S. Pham, 2010. "Trading on Time," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 92(1), pages 166-173, February.
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