Product Description: South Asian leaders have made it a priority to tackle key regional issues such as poverty, environment degradation, trade and investment barriers and food insecurity, among others. This book considers the leadership of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the interaction with civil society in the process of South Asian regional cooperation and integration, and discusses how the emerging urgency in the provision of regional public goods provides an excellent opportunity to add to the successes in South Asian regional integration...read more

Product Description: This collection analyzes the potentials of the North East Indian economy, discussing ways in which it can be reconnected to the mainstream economic activities of India. Gauging through the historical factors responsible for the economic failure of the North East Region (NER)―the partition in 1947, weak infrastructure, lack of technological know-how, and poor access to marketing networks―it assesses the region's production scenario at present...read more

Product Description: The authors of this book link productivity change, trade competitiveness, networks of interaction and cooperation and income growth in developing Asian countries with the complex evolutionary processes of economic development and international trade...read more

Product Description: "If there is a reason why a nation which launches satellites has reduced its promising indigenous computer manufacturing industry to 'vegetable' retailing, one can search for it in this 200-page book.... Brunner's rigorous statistical study uses figures for the 10 crucial years between 1976 and 1986 to discover the directions which the industry had taken, and is taking...read more

Product Description: "If there is a reason why a nation which launches satellites has reduced its promising indigenous computer manufacturing industry to 'vegetable' retailing, one can search for it in this 200-page book.... Brunner's rigorous statistical study uses figures for the 10 crucial years between 1976 and 1986 to discover the directions which the industry had taken, and is taking...read more