The future of economic convergence

The world is now facing what observers are calling a "synchronised" growth upswing. What does this mean for the economic "convergence" of developed and developing countries, a topic that lost salience after the Great Recession began a decade ago?In the 1990s, developing economies, taken as a whole, began to grow...

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SAFTA: Promises and performance

The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) was signed on January 06, 2004 during the 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit in Islamabad and was effective after January 01, 2006. Among the members was an important and apparent realisation regarding the vital importance of intra-SAARC trade. This...

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Translucent but out in the open

If Donald Trump chooses to write a book on his Presidency he will be justified in saying that he struck three great deals in the first two years of his first tenure, the second year having just begun. He has pushed through a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut that basically...

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