Asian Economic Integration (Reprint)

Contents Foreword. Preface. Abbreviations. List of contributors. Introduction and overview/Anil Kumar Thakur and Adesh Sharma. 1. Asian Economic Integration/Indernath Mukherji. 2. The road map of economic integration of an Asian Block JACEAS/Debesh Bhowmik. 3. Towards an Asia Trade Bloc role of East Asia ASEAN AND SAARC/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 4. Regional blocs trade flows and revealed comparative advantages case for Asian Economic Integration/Paramjit Nanda and P.S. Raikhy. 5. Trade integration in South Asia problems and prospects/Smriti Mukherjee. 6. Asian Economic Integration a strategic relevance of broad approach/H.H. Uliveppa D.R. Albal and M.N. Siddalingappanavar. 7. Agenda for Asian Economic Integration problems and prospects/Amalesh Banerjee. 8. Asian Economic Integration issues and challenges/Krishen K. Kaushik and Kurt K. Klein. 9. Asian Economic Integration an emerging sub paradigm in regional groupings/V.N. Attri. 10. Asian Regional Financial Integration an analysis of a possible road map/Shrawan Kumar Singh. 11. Can South Asia create a common currency/Priyanka Gaur. 12. Exchange rate regimes and monetary policy for Asian countries/Puspa Tarafdar. 13. Integration of the North Eastern Region with the neighbouring countries in trade and commerce Look East Policy Implicates/Readingstar John Nongbri. 14. India's regional trading with the SAARC Countries some issues/M.S. Sidhu Lavleen Kaur and Pashupati Ray. 15. Free trade between India and the European Union 15 a general equilibrium approach/Chandrima Sikdar. 16. An economic overview of Asian integration with special reference to Indo Korean Economic Alliance/Sita Ram Singh and Mohan Prasad Shrivastava. 17. With special reference to Indo Nepal Trade Relation/S.P. Saha and Vinod Kumar Choudhary. 18. Asian Economic Integration issues challenges and future prospects thereof/Dev Raj. Index. Economic Integration among Asian countries is getting prominence through various economic cooperation initiatives. While these initiatives emerged from existing trade pacts are limited to largely trade in goods and investment flows some of them do go beyond and attempt to delve into deeper cooperation by way of encompassing issues such as government regulations trade facilitation customs procedures etc. In the backdrop of increasing tendencies towards regional integration in Asia the present volume makes a timely attempt to capture the essence and urgency of Asian Economic Integration. The research papers included in this volume attempt to study in depth the recent proliferation of regional and bilateral agreements and various nuances of the existing regional agreements amongst Asian countries on the basis of theoretical analysis as well as empirical evidence. Importantly some of the papers highlight the crucial roles that some of the powerful and faster growing economies like China Japan South Korea and India assume in the whole process of regional integration in Asia. The book raises fundamental questions such as how far Asian countries are from an effective economic integration what steps are required to be undertaken for achieving this goal what kind of learning the Asian countries might have from the EU's experiences regarding the possibility of creating a common currency union and so on. India being a crucial player in the region this volume focuses specifically on India and critically examines diverse issues from an Indian perspective. 378 pp.…