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Managing India-Pakistan Trade Relations – II

Managing India-Pakistan trade relations – II

Policy recommendations: As the relationship is likely to remain fragile due to past historical experience a proactive management of the policies and processes and a vigilant eye on their implementation…

Managing India-Pakistan Trade Relations – I

Managing India-Pakistan trade relations – I

The following is the text of a paper presented at the Woodrow Wilson Centre Conference on Pakistan-India Trade at Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2012. Background: Economic historians and analysts…

Lessons from trade agreements

Trade agreements help boost exports, attract FDI, and generate jobs. Vietnam is an excellent example of how this can be achieved. Through trade agreements with virtually all the important trading…

Strategic trade shift

AS the world’s attention remains squarely focused on geopolitical conflicts, a silent revolution is reshaping global trade by linking trade, innovation and national security. Given such momentous changes, Pakistan appears…

A complicated relationship

The historical relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been marked by a series of conflicts and diplomatic tensions despite the two being dominantly Muslim neighbouring countries with thousands of years…

A topsy-turvy relationship

Since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s relationship with the US has become somewhat cordial. This is not because the two are experiencing highs in their relations, but because of…

Power relations

Whenever American policymakers talk about India, they sing praises of its cultural diversity, hailing it as the world’s oldest and largest democracy. The euphoria of shared values of common democratic…

Trade beyond barriers

US-China relations have soured over the past few years mostly due to the accusatory tone adopted by successive US presidents. Previously it was Donald Trump and now Joe Biden has…