Events

The Centre for Policy Research is pleased to invite you to a virtual talk and panel discussion on: Topping the Glass Half Full: Opportunities for Regional Trade in South Asia

Talk by:
Dr Sanjay Kathuria, Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR
Panellists: 
Ambassador Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary & Senior Fellow, CPR
Dr Nagesh Kumar, Director and Head, South and South-West Asia (SSWA) Office, UNESCAP
Dr Selim Raihan, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka
Chair: 
Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya, Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR

The session will be held online via Zoom. To register, kindly fill this form. It will also be live-streamed on CPR’s Facebook page.

If there is an issue, please email communication@cprindia.org

About the session

It would be no overstatement to say that seventy years after the decolonisation of South Asia, economic integration of the region remains disappointing. Intraregional trade as a share of regional gross domestic product (GDP) hovers around only 1 percent in South Asia, versus 2.6 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa and about 11 percent in East Asia and the Pacific. Yet, world history has repeatedly shown trade to be a crucial tool for poverty reduction. Centered around the book A Glass Half Full: The Promise of Regional Trade in South Asia, this event will discuss various challenges to regional economic integration and lessons that can be learned from some success stories. The event will consist of a brief talk by Dr Sanjar Kathuria, editor of the book and a recent addition to the CPR faculty, followed by a panel discussion.