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Thirty years of SAARC : society, culture and development
This book traces economic and political issues through SAARC’s thirty-year journey. Topical and well-researched, this collection provides a comprehensive assessment of SAARC and provides policy directives for the future. The book points out the issues and constraints that have hindered regional cooperation in South Asia. It establishes that despite being democracies, there has been little effort by member nations to promote regional cooperation in the public domain. It stresses that in view of the increased role that countries wish to play in globalisation, economic cooperation is the way forward. The book further argues that political will is the pivot on which the prospect of regional cooperation revolves.
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Social development and the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia
\"This book assesses the roadmap for the implementation of the SDGs in South Asia, focusing in particular on the areas of poverty reduction, inequality, health/wellbeing and water and sanitation. South Asia is amongst the fastest growing regions in the world, with an aggregate GDP in excess of 2 trillion US dollars, but at the same time it has significant deficits in human development, with 37% of the world's poor and nearly half of the world's malnourished children. For South Asia, the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs) represent a constructive opportunity to end many of the region's deprivations in a time-bound and systematic manner. Starting with the legacy of the Millennium Development Goals, the book goes on to provide a country by country overview of strategies for addressing the problems of poverty, health, water, and sanitation. South-South Cooperation and in particular the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) are discussed, and finally the editors present a summary of policy priorities for social development. This book aims to be a useful resource for researchers, policy influencers, planners, implementers, students, and activists aiming to push to achieve the SDGs\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Action for Action: Mad COVID-19, Falling Markets and Rising Volatility of SAARC Region
The Southern Region has reported a large number of contagious pandemic outbreaks. These epidemics brought threats to human health and resulted in serious economic losses. The COVID-19 is a global virus and has weakened the global financial markets with significant effect on stock returns and market volatilities. The study obtained a dataset about the financial market structure of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Countries. The purpose of the study is to determine the effect of 2019-nCov on stock market performance of SAARC member states. The study considered indexes of the National Stock Exchanges of each country and applied an event study approach for estimating the impact of Mad COVID-19 on the stock returns and market volatilities with an event window of 25 days of severe pandemic hits. The CAR approach proved the declining effect of Mad COVID-19 on the stock returns of SAARC countries. Asymmetric GJR-GARCH Model estimated the changeable volatility and proved the increase in volatility with COVID-19 as a negative shock. SAARC Region significantly reacts to Mad COVID-19 with falling markets and rising volatility.
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Economic reforms in SAARC countries : impact of LPG on development indicators
\"This book presents a cross country comparison of development Indicators in the SAARC Countries with respect to the recent pre - and post- Liberalization, Privatization and globalization (LPG) era. In presenting the empirical analysis using econometric methods the present book brings in the theoretical background relating to the growth of public expenditure as articulated by Adolf Wagner and other researchers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century along with the Displacement Effect Hypothesis as advanced by Peacock and Wiseman in the mid twentieth century. It provides a critical analysis of the theories and views of the researchers on Wagner's law and the subsequent P-W hypothesis. It articulates and re-examines these with respect to the changes in the economic policies and comes up with reinterpretation of the impact using time series analysis. It empirically examines the changes in the structure of the estimated equation by using dummy variables. The study has tried to quantify the impact of the policy changes and has articulated the appropriateness of the use of dummy variable\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Regional Cooperation in South Asia
This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for regional cooperation and development in South Asia. In light of the ongoing globalization process, the contributors investigate how socio-economic developments are changing the spatial organization of production as well as the profile of cities and landscapes, are stimulating the creation of maritime, terrestrial and aerial channels, and are putting increasing pressures on natural and environmental resources.
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