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Advantages And Disadvantages Of SAARC

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Abstract:- Trade is the transfer of ownership of goods and services from one person or entity to another by getting something in exchange from the buyer. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade between more than two traders is called multilateral trade and trade between nations is called foreign trade/ international trade or external trade. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic and geopolitical organisation of eight countries that are primarily located in South Asia Even after the formation of SAARC trading bloc, regional integration among the South Asian countries remains minimal. The objective of this paper is to examine whether intra-SAARC trade is lower or higher than what is …show more content…

The unfortunate state of integration among the SAARC countries is an impediment to the growth of the region and constitutes an untapped potential. The objective of this paper is to analyse the less appreciated problems faced by SAARC in promoting intraregional trade and investment. It peeps into the reasons that explain the low level of intraregional trade flows which are not accommodated for in a pure economic theoretic approach. This involves the political considerations – either how political relations between the countries or the power asymmetry of global production and trading arrangements seen in global value chains or the political pressure put by domestic pressure groups define trade patterns. Each of these is looked into one by one in the following sections: Section 2 shows how restrictions put up in an ad-hoc manner creates difficulties in development of stable and dependable trade movement across the India- Pakistan border. Section 3 discusses the growing importance of global value chains and the infeasibility of trade between member states therein. Section 4 states how the sectional interest groups try to influence the trade ties among countries by forming lobbies to hinder movement of goods and to maintain their market share. The paper primarily looks into Indo-Pak trade

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