Thinking Aloud: Volume I, Issue 2

SANEM Thinking Aloud, July 1, 2014 issue focuses on regional integration in South Asia. The first article underscores the importance of a new regime for regional integration in South Asia with emphasis on market integration, growth integration, investment integration and policy integration. The article on regional value chain emphasizes on the promotion of regional value chain in South Asia for deepening regional integration, and provides examples of cases of garments and leather products. The short https://iabdm.org/adderall-online/ interview of Dr. Saman Kelegama emphasizes on the significance of reaping low hanging fruits for a stronger regional integration in South Asia. A short story on the leather sector in Bangladesh shows how SANEM’s intervention is helping this sector to drive to a positive direction, much needed for export diversification. The macroeconomic update focuses on the need for a new investment regime in Bangladesh for further growth acceleration and growth