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Vol. 7 No. 2, July - December 2006

Articles
Learning from South Asian ‘Successes': Tapping Social Capital


Shahrukh Rafi Khan

NAMA Negotiations in the WTO and Preference Erosion: Concerns of Bangladesh and Other Asia-Pacific LDCs

Mustafizur Rahman and Wasel Bin Shadat

Predicting Stock Returns: An Experiment of the Artificial Neural Network in Indian Stock Market

Chakradhara Panda and
V. Narasimhan

Public-Private Investment Linkage in Pakistan : A Multivariate Cointegration Analysis

Abdul Rashid

Internal Trade Barriers in India: Fiscal Check-posts

Arindam Das-Gupta

Gender Bias in Nutrient Intake: Evidence from Selected Indian States

Geoffrey Lancaster,
Pushkar Maitra, and
Ranjan Ray

Book Reviews
Document

 

Vol. 7 No. 1, January - June 2006

Articles
Impact of Protection on Domestic Processing of Primary Commodities for Export Markets: An Example from the Sri Lankan Tea Industry


Gaminda Ganewatta, Robert Waschik, Sisira Jayasuriya and Geoff Edwards

Trade Policy Reforms and Openness of Indian Agriculture: Analysis at the Commodity Level

Seema Bathla

Money, Income and Prices in Pakistan : A Bi-variate and Tri-variate Causality

Kalbe Abbas and
Fazal Husain

Market Efficiency for the Pakistan Stock Market: Evidence from the Karachi Stock Exchange

Madhumita
Chakraborty

Analyzing India 's Trade Dynamics vis-à-vis SAARC Members Using the Gravity Model

Biswajit Nag and Anisha Nandi

On the Incentives of Violence: Greed and Pride in Sri Lanka 's Civil War

Benedikt Korf and
Stefanie Engel

Book Reviews
Document

 
Vol. 6 No. 2, July - December 2005

Articles
Behaviour of Stock Markets in South Asia :
An Econometric Investigation


W.I.C.S. Gunasinghe

Is the Indian Stock Market Integrated with the US and Japanese Markets? An Empirical Analysis

Khan Masood Ahmad,
Shahid Ashraf and Shahid Ahmed

Foreign Capital Inflows and Growth in Pakistan : A Simultaneous
Equation Model

Bushra Yasmin

The Twin Deficits Problem in Sri Lanka :
An Econometric Analysis

Ali Salman Saleh,
Mahendhiran Nair and
Tikiri Agalewatte

Trade Policy, Poverty and Inequity in Nepal

Kishor Sharma

Inequality in the Literacy Levels in Pakistan:
Existence and Changes Overtime

Fazal Husain and
Muhammad Ali Qasim

Book Reviews
Document

 
Vol. 6 No. 1, January - June 2005

Articles
WTO Agriculture Negotiations and South Asian Countries: Concerns,
Viewpoints and Consensus


Ramesh Chand
and Seema Bathla


Agricultural Trade Policy Reforms in India


Prema-chandra
Athukorala

Commercial Agriculture in Kerala
after the WTO

Brigit Joseph
and K.J. Joseph

Economic Growth, Appropriate Policies
And Poverty Reduction in a Developing
Country: Some Experience from Indonesia

Tulus Tambunan

Should Bangladesh Join a Regional Free Trade Area?

Peter Warr

Inequality in the Literacy Levels in Pakistan:
Existence and Changes Overtime

Fazal Husain and
Muhammad Ali Qasim

Notes
Review Article
Book Reviews
Document

 
Volume 5 Number 2, July - December 2004

Articles
Assessing the Impact of Financial and Capital Market Reforms on Firms’ Corporate Patterns in India


Sayuri Shirai

Stock Market and Foreign Exchange Market in India: Are they Related?

Alok Kumar Mishra

Competing for Global FDI: Opportunities and Challenges for the Indian Economy

Sadhana Srivastava and Rahul Sen

Capital Mobility and Informal Wage in a Small Economy –Two Examples

Sugata Marjit, Saibal Kar and Punyabrata Sarkar

Liberalization Measures in India’s Coffee Sector: Analytical Implications for Market Structure and Consumer Welfare Analyses in Developing Countries

M.R. Narayana

Economic Value of Conservation: The Case of the Asian Elephant

Ranjith Bandara

Notes

 

Book Reviews

Documents

 

Vol. 5 No 1, January - June 2004

Articles
What Type of Competition Policy and Law Should a Developing Country Have?

Ratnakar Adhikari and Malathy Knight-John

India’s Informal Trade with Sri Lanka and Nepal: An Estimation

Nisha Taneja, Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, Binod K. Karmacharya and Sanjib Pohit

The Impact of Policy Reforms on Labour Productivity, Price Cost Margin and Total Factor Productivity: The Nepalese Experience

Kishor Sharma

Institutions, Economic Structure and Poverty in Pakistan

Akmal Hussain

Agricultural Growth and Welfare: A Study on Indian States

Atanu Sengupta, Jadab Chandra Bhattacharya and Manabendu Chattopadhyay

Notes

 

Book Reviews

 

Documents

 

Vol. 4 No. 2, July - December 2003
(Special Issue on Financial Liberalization, Corporate Financial Structuring and Governance: The Case of India)

Articles
Financial Sector Reforms and Corporate Governance of Banks in Developing Economies: The Indian Experience

T.G. Arun and J.D. Turner

Regulation as an Augmentor of Competition: The Indian Experience with the Banking Sector

N. Nagarajan

Financial Liberalization in India and the Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Transmission

Abhaysingh Chavan and Rajendra R. Vaidya

Corporate Financial Structures in India

Christopher J. Green Victor Murinde and Joy Suppakitjarak

Dividend Policy and Agency Theory: Evidence from Indian Firms

Ronny Manos

Microfinance and the Poverty of Financial Services: A Perspective from Indian Experience

Sanjay Sinha and Meenal Patole

Review Article

 

Book Reviews

 

Documents

 

Vol. 4 No. 1, January - June 2003
(Special issue on the WTO, South Asian Agriculture and IPRs)

Articles
Globalization, South Asian Agriculture and the WTO

Alan Bullion

Agreement on Agriculture: Issues of Market Access for South Asian Countries

Posh Raj Pandey

Market Access in Agricultural Trade: Issues Concerning India

Rajiv Mehta

IPRs and Agriculture: South Asian Concerns

Anitha Ramanna

The Corporate Pharmaceutical Model and the Legacy of Doha: Whither a Global Consensus on Public Health Governance?

Joseph Savirimuthu

India, the European Union and Geographical Indications: Convergence
of Interests and Challenges Ahead

Sachin Chaturvedi

The WTO and Nepal: Compatibility and Contradiction between the
Agreements and the Acts

Bhubanesh Pant

Notes

 

Book Reviews

 

Documents

 

Articles
Impact of China’s Accession to the Bangkok Agreement
on Intraregional Trade Flows

Ravi Ratnayake

Export Performance of Bangladesh: A Constant Market
Share Analysis

Merlinda Ingco and
Tonia Kandiero

Trade Policy Reforms in South Asia and Australia-South
Asia Trade: Intensities and Complementarities

Jayatilleke S. Bandara
and Christine Smith

Interest Rates and Inflationary Expectations: Evidence on
the Fisher Effect in Sri Lanka

Arusha Cooray

Elasticity of Household Expenditure on Education in Rural
India

Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

Convergence across Indian States: Cross-Sectional and
Panel Estimations

Tushar Kanti Das

Notes

 

Discussion

 

Book Reviews

 

Documents

 

Articles
Exceptional Protection: The Way Ahead - A Developing
Country Perspective

Sarath Rajapatirana

Aid and Growth in India: Some Evidence from Disaggregated Aid Data

George Mavrotas

Why Did a Slump Follow Land Reforms in Kerala?

Pulapre
Balakrishnan

Redistributive Effects of Public Expenditures in Urban
and Rural Areas of Pakistan

Nasim Shah Shirazi,
Muhammad Ilyas and
Mehboob Ahmad

Does Human Development Policy Matter for Economic Growth?
Evidence from Indian States

Jaya Prakash Pradhan
and Vinoj Abraham

Regionalism in South Asia: The Relevance of SAPTA for Sri Lanka

Dushni
Weerakoon and
Janaka Wijayasiri

Book Reviews

 

Documents

 

Articles
Impact of the Enlargement of APEC on South Asia: An Analysis of
Trade Potential


R.H.S. Samaratunga,
Sisira Jayasuriya and
David Prentice

South Asian Monetary Integration in Light of the Optimum Currency Area Criterion of Patterns of Shocks

Nephil Matangi Maskay

Energy for Economic Development in South Asia: Present Status, Future Requirements, and Potential for Regional Cooperation

Upali Wickramasinghe

Conceptual and Policy Issues in Rules of Origin:
Implications for SAPTA and SAFTA

V.R. Panchamukhi and
Ram Upendra Das

Regional Trading Arrangements among SAARC
Countries and India's Imports

Swapan K. Bhattacharya

Review Article: The report of the SAARC Group of Eminent Persons

Indra Nath Mukherji

Book Reviews

 

Documents

 
Vol. 2 No.1, January - June 2001
(Special issue on Reforms, Growth and Equity in South Asia)

Editorial: Reforms, Growth and Equity in South Asia

 

Articles
Economic Reforms, Regional Integration and Labour Markets in the South Asian Region


V.R. Panchamukhi and
Ram Upendra Das

Public Provision of Social Security: The Challenge in South Asia

K. Seeta Prabhu and
Sandhya V. Iyer

Growth with Equity: A Bangladesh Perspective

Bazlul Haque Khondker
and Abdul Hamid
Chaudhury

Economic Reforms in Nepal and their Implications for Trade, Economic
Growth, Inequality and Poverty

Binod K. Karmacharya

Rethinking Social Development: Towards an Equitable Future for Sri Lanka

Laksiri Jayasuriya

Review Article: Attacking Poverty: A Lost Opportunity- World
Development Report 2000-2001

T.N. Srinivasan

Book Reviews

 

Documents

 
Vol. 1 No. 2, September 2000

Editorial: South Asia in the World Trading System

 

Articles
Services Trade as a "New Frontier" in South Asia: Is the Optimism Warranted?


Upali Wickramasinghe

GATT/ WTO and the TRIPs Agreement: A South Asian Perspective

Suman Sahai

Agreement on Agriculture and Food Security: South Asian Perspective

Ratnakar Adhikari

Trade, Competition Policy and International Competition Rules: A South Asian Perspective

Pradeep S. Mehta and Ujjwal Kumar

WTO and the Textile and Garment Sector: Implications for Sri Lanka

Dushni Weerakoon and Janaka Wijayasiri

Labour Standards and WTO: A New Form of Protectionism

Amit Dasgupta

Book Reviews

 

South Asia Documentation

 

Articles
Emerging WTO Issues and Challenges: Imperatives for South Asia


Nagesh Kumar

Inequalities in Income Growth in India before and after Reforms

Shashanka Bhide and Ric Shand

Indo-Sri Lanka Trade and Investment Linkages: With Special Reference to SAPTA and Free Trade Agreement

Indra Nath Mukherji

Foreign Investment Regimes in South Asia: Some Critical Issues

Mahendra Lama

The Uruguay Round Agreement and Pakistan's Trade in Textiles and Clothing

Musleh-Ud Din and Kalbe Abbas

Towards a Transitional Strategy for Good Governance and Poverty Eradication in South Asia

Ponna Wignaraja

An Overview of Copyright Legislation in Nepal

Pustun Pradhan

Book Reviews

 

SAARC Documentation