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Wanted! Your proposals on Regional Integration in South Asia
Home to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, South Asia is one of the fastest growing regions in the world and yet one of the least integrated....
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Five lessons of regional integration from Asia, America, and Africa
More than 50% of today’s international trade goes through regional trading arrangements. While trade is a critical component of regional integration, integration has several other dimensions including...
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Which South Asia do you live in?
This blog is part of the series #OneSouthAsia exploring how South Asia can become a more integrated, thus more economically dynamic region. The blog series is a lead up to the South Asia Economic...
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How India and Nepal are paving the way for greater regional integration
India-Nepal border. Credit: Erik Nora / World BankThis blog is part of the series #OneSouthAsia exploring how South Asia can become a more integrated, thus more economically dynamic region. The blog...
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Imagine a South Asia without borders
Cranes in Bangladesh Harbor. Credit: Eric Nora / The World BankThis blog is part of the series #OneSouthAsia exploring how South Asia can become a more integrated, thus more economically dynamic...
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5 things to boost South Asian regional trade to $100 billion in 5 years
Bangladesh Women in Garment Factory. Credit: World BankThis blog is part of the series #OneSouthAsia exploring how South Asia can become a more integrated, thus more economically dynamic region. The...
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Toward South Asian regional economic integration: A Bangladeshi perspective
Mortijheel Commercial area Photo credit: Mahfuzul Hasan BhuiyanSouth Asia can become a powerful locomotive of global development but it could just as easily regress into becoming the crucible for...
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Digital highways to loop South Asia together
This blog is part of of the series South Asia Youth Voices on regional integration. The views expressed are those of the authors. The 21st century world lives on optical fibers, and with an active...
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The potential of one South Asia in 4 numbers
Young Indian Female Student at the South Asia Economic Forum 2015. Credit: World Bank You don’t have to be a number-cruncher to enjoy this challenge: 1, 5, 200, and 2,800,000. Close your eyes after...
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How to reconnect South Asia through trade
India is home to 15,000 kilometers of navigable inland waterways. Photo credit: Anirban Dutta / World Bank South Asia can now reap the benefits of greater regional integration it once enjoyed before...
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Boosting South Asian Trade – Carpe Diem!
Ismail Ferdous/World Bank South Asia’s Commerce Ministers meet in Thimphu on July 24. Getting there would not have been easy for many of them, with no direct flights between Thimphu and four of the...
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Tackling the Most Critical Regional Economic Challenges
For the first time in history, all South Asian leaders were invited to the newly elected Indian Prime Minister’s oath-taking ceremony, May 2014. President Mahinda Rajapaksa/Flickr. I’m on my way to...
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Let’s All Play Antakshari, Shall We?
Delilah Liu/World Bank On Dec 24th 2014, Christmas Eve, I went into the reception room of Hotel Namgay Heritage in Thimphu, Bhutan to look for some students to interview for my story on the 11th South...
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9 New Year Wishes from South Asian Youth
Students from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka in Bhutan expressed their wish for a more integrated South Asia. Photo by: Rubaiya Murshed After the New Year...
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Why do smaller countries benefit from greater trade with their neighbors?
Quay cranes on docks Sri Lanka. Dominic Sansoni/World Bank“The real end winner of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is going to be Mexico […]” said then Mexican president Vicente Fox, in...
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Accelerating economic growth and job creation in Bangladesh
Instructor and Students at the Bangladesh Korea Technical Training Center, Chittagong. Credit: Mahfuzul Hasan Bhuiyan Bangladesh has a major opportunity to address one of its most pressing development...
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Can One Country's Electricity Surplus Be Another Country's Gain? The opening ceremonies in Dushanbe, Tajikistan starting Wednesday for construction works on the CASA-1000 project mark an important...
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Is South Asia ready for a Regional Motor Vehicles Agreement?
Trucks waiting to unload their goods in Bangladesh. Photo By Erik Nora/World Bank Judging by the number of views of the recent Facebook livestream event on intra-regional trade and investment in South...
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How will Bangladesh reach higher levels of prosperity?
Bangladesh has now joined the ranks of a lower middle-income country. But the next phase of growth and poverty reduction is harder. Credit: World Bank There is no doubt that Bangladesh is a modern day...
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Fresh thinking on economic cooperation in South Asia
Young Economists sharing the stage with Sanjay Kathuria, Lead Economist and Coordinator, Regional Integration (Left to Right: Aamir Khan/ Pakistan, Sreerupa Sengupta/ India, Sanjay Kathuria/ World...
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