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The Twelfth SAARC Summit

Deeper Integration in South Asia

Muchkund Dubey

Muchkund Dubey is Director, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India and a Member of the Group of Eminent Persons established by the 9th SAARC Summit in 1997 at Malé.

The adoption of the Framework Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) at the Islamabad SAARC Summit imparted a major thrust to the movement for regional integration in South Asia. Advantages of an FTA are derived not only from the enlargement of the market and enhanced investment flows but also from measures of deeper integration included in FTAs. These measures include trade facilitation, investment, services, joint development of infrastructure, monetary and financial cooperation, cooperation in science and technology, harmonisation of macro-economic policies, structural changes in production patterns and common strategy for negotiating in international fora and with other regional groupings. The article summarises the measures of deeper integration provided in regional groupings of developing countries. It gives a rough sequencing of such measures along the path of regional integration. Finally, it analyses the scope, significance and prospects of deeper integration in South Asia in selected areas.

South Asian Survey, Vol. 12, No. 1, 21-34 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/097152310501200102
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