Cover -- Prospects of Regional Economic Cooperation in South Asia: With special studies on Indian industry -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of acronyms -- About the author -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Part I Regional economic cooperation in South Asia -- 1 Regional trade agreements: trends, taxonomy and motivation -- Proliferation of regional trade agreements in the world economy -- Regional trade agreements: taxonomy -- Motivations to form regional trade agreements -- Pre-conditions and key principles for successful regional integration -- Notes -- 2 Regional trade agreements in South Asia -- Introduction -- Bilateral arrangements -- Multilateral/inter-regional agreements -- Legal basis of RTAs in South Asia -- Notes -- 3 Regional economic cooperation in South Asia: a literature review -- Recent literature on regional trade cooperation worldwide -- The debate on RTAs: arguments in favor and against -- The 'natural trading partner' hypothesis as a criterion for the success of RTAs -- Regional trade cooperation in South Asia: earlier and recent studies -- The desirability of the South Asian Free Trade Area -- Notes -- 4 Regional trade in South Asia: findings from three indices -- South Asia in the world -- Trade intensity index -- Index of revealed comparative advantage -- Trade complementarity index -- Notes -- 5 Gravity analysis of South Asia's free trade -- Introduction -- Augmented gravity model of South Asian trade -- Results and discussion -- Conclusion -- 6 What do GTAP evaluations reveal about regionalism in South Asia? -- Introduction -- Pigato et al. (1997) -- Tennakoon (2000) -- Siriwardana (2002) -- Bandara and Yu (2003) -- Asaduazzaman et al. (2003) -- Mohanty (2005) -- Hossain and Selim (2007) -- Raihan and Razzaque (2007) -- Ganesh-Kumar and Saini (2009) -- Conclusion -- Notes.

7 Trade facilitation concerns in South Asia: the case of selected agro-food industries -- Introduction -- South Asian integration and economic policy space -- Agricultural exports, non-tariff measures and trade facilitation in South Asia -- Indian commodity studies -- Conclusion -- 8 The impact of the India-Sri Lanka FTA: prospects for a comprehensive economic partnership agreement -- Introduction -- Main provisions of ISFTA -- Trade impact of ISFTA -- Structure of Indian and Sri Lankan exports in the post-ISFTA period -- Potential areas of cooperation for trade in services -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Part II Special studies on Indian industry -- 9 The Hatch-Waxman Act and Indian pharmaceutical firms: an analysis -- Introduction -- Principal provisions of the HWA -- The significance of the HWA for Indian pharma companies -- Recent case law in the HWA -- Case law and Indian pharmaceutical firms -- Conclusion and recommendations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 10 Non-tariff measures and their impact: India's textiles and clothing exports -- Introduction -- NTMs and India -- Approach and methodology -- Results and discussion -- Conclusion and direction for future research -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 11 Cluster dynamics and performance in traditional industries: critical review of lock, brassware and glassware industries in north India -- Introduction -- Aligarh lock industry -- Firozabad glass industry -- Moradabad brassware industry -- Discussion on clusters -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Part III Conclusion -- 12 Conclusion -- Part I -- Part II -- References -- Index.