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Opening Up Markets to Neighbors : Gains for Smaller Countries in South Asia

The South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) came into effect in 2006, but free and unfettered trade is still a work in progress. Drawing from theory and evidence, this note looks at how all countries, especially the smaller ones, can gain from mutual trade liberalization. Consumers, exporters, and produc...

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Main Authors: Kathuria, Sanjay, Shahid, Sohaib
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
apparel
apparel exports
bilateral Free Trade Agreement
Bilateral trade
capital markets
Common Market
competitiveness
consumer goods
Consumers
cost reduction
cross-border issues
Currency
customs
customs union
decision making
developed countries
Development Economics
economic cooperation
export growth
export markets
export products
exporters
exports
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank
foreign capital
foreign competition
foreign direct investment
Free Trade
free trade agreements
Free Trade Area
free trade zones
GDP
growth rate
impact of trade
impact of trade reforms
import tariffs
imports
industry trade
International economics
international telecommunications
LDCs
manufacturing industries
Market size
mutual trade
new markets
new products
non-tariff barriers
per capita income
policy makers
Policy Research
political economy
productivity
productivity growth
protectionist
real income
regional integration
small countries
small country
small economies
sourcing
sunset clauses
tariff barriers
tariff concessions
tariff reduction
Trade Agreement
trade barriers
trade concessions
trade liberalization
trade openness
trade patterns
trade policy
trade reform
trade reforms
unemployment
unilateral tariff reduction
value added
welfare loss
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21407

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