What the anti-WTO movement means and where it can go
Does the Western anti-WTO movement represent all the world's people who are affected by the international trading system?
Trans-Himalayan Caravans:Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh
by Janet Rizvi; Oxford University
Press, Delhi; pp 392;
ISBN 0-19-564855-2
There is a clear danger of alienating the spirit of consensus on which the success of a larger South Asian free trade area will depend.
It is no surprise that
SAARC needs to prepare for the agenda of the Millennium Round.
It is often argued that the reason South Asian countries have historically often been marginalised in trade negotiations, is
The hope lies with the WTO and its capacity to act as a levelling factor.
The major focus of the economic liberalisation process South Asian countries have undertaken in the
It is worth remembering that even as free trade makes the headlines, agreements by themselves are not likely to work the magic. For South Asia to unleash its long-suppressed economic
Nepal's travel-traders seem to know how to run every sector of tourism into the ground.
The two biggest problems of Nepali tourism are over-supply and under-cutting. The market
Whatever sensible economic activity you can think of, an activity that adds to the wealth of the country, there is a government rule that stifles or constrains it.
It is
However utopian it may seem, a South Asian confederation may actually work. The fate of the people of South Asia cannot be left to nation-states alone. There is a collective
The new Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) spoke to Himal editor Kanak Mani Dixit soon after assuming office.
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