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    Regional Economic Integration: Challenges for South Asia During Turbulent Times
    (South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment and South Asia Centre for Policy Studies Kathmandu, 2012) Kelegama, Saman (ed.); Adhikari, Ratnakar (ed.); Sarma, Puspa (ed.); Kharel, Paras (ed.)
    This book is an outcome of the papers presented and the deliberations in the 3rd South Asia Economic Summit (SAES). This book attempts to highlight the challenges for regional economic integration in South Asia by examining the current shortcomings and future challenges. The book is divided into six parts. Part 1 (Chapter 2) highlights the problems and opportunities of regional economic integration. Part 2 (Chapters 3–5) focuses on the impediments to goods and services liberalization while Part 3 (Chapters 6–8) examines the issues with regard to regional connectivity and trade facilitation. Part 4 (Chapters 9–10) analyses the fi nancial infl ows to South Asia in the form of remittances at a time of global turbulence and fi nances required for more effective integration of least-developed country (LDC) members of SAARC into the regional economic cooperation framework. Part 5 (Chapters 11–12) then discusses the role of the civil society and the private sector in expediting regional economic integration, and fi nally, Part 6 (Chapters 13–14) examines environmental goods and challenges related to climate change in the region.