The success or failure of SAARC in advancing regional cooperation is dependent upon the inescapable fact that it is an inter-governmental organization. Even within the areas of cooperation that
South Asian governments should lift trade barriers, get out of the way, and let markets grow smoothly.
Despite the dangers of generalisation, it is fair to assert that most countries
India and Pakistan together boast a market of more than a billion consumers, but their trade relations have always been overshadowed by political tension. Overt and legitimate trade between the
The basic premise on which SAARC was founded is clearly showing signs of validation. While shaping the SAARC initiative during the early 1980s, it was assumed that by activating cooperative
Tibet: The Road Ahead
by Dawa Norbu Harper Collins Publishers India, New
Delhi, 1997 INR 395, pp 378, ISBN 81 7223 238 1
Contemporary books about pre-1950 Tibet tend
Environmental Politics
People´s Lives and Developmental Choices
by Sumi Krishna
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1996
Writings on the theorisation of the relationship between environment and development, realistic or spiritualistic,
The Microcredit Summit held in Washington DC on 2-4 February was the first privately organised development summit. It succeeded in attracting a herd of presidents and prime ministers, queens
SAARC Secretary General Naeem U Hasan assumed office on I January 1996, and has presided over a period when the organisation seems to have, at long last, picked up some
Small nations are generally afraid of big ones, but there are occasions when the big begin to take note of the small and even develop apprehensions about them. In the
