Dean DeRosa
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 36
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Like many other regional groups, the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lankahave taken steps toward forming a regional free trade area. Will the SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) offer the substantial economic benefits, including food security, that South Asian leaders expect? This quantitative analysis compares the economic results of SAPTAwith two other trade liberalization schemes, (1) more liberal trade between SAARCand the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries, and (2) more liberal trade between SAARC and the world.