PROSPECTS OF TRADE EXPANSION IN THE SAARC REGION

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The Developing EconomiesVolume 30, Issue 1 p. 3-23 Free Access PROSPECTS OF TRADE EXPANSION IN THE SAARC REGION Mangat Ram AGGARWAL, Mangat Ram AGGARWALSearch for more papers by this authorPosh Raj PANDEY, Posh Raj PANDEYSearch for more papers by this author Mangat Ram AGGARWAL, Mangat Ram AGGARWALSearch for more papers by this authorPosh Raj PANDEY, Posh Raj PANDEYSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1992 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1049.1992.tb00001.xCitations: 2 We are grateful to Professor V. R. Panchmukhi, Director, Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Development Countries, New Delhi; Professor P. R. Bramhananda, National Fellow, ICSSR, New Delhi; and anonymous referees for their scholarly comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Our thanks are also due to Professor Vikas Mishra and the senior most Professor T. N. Kapoor for their very useful and incisive comments. 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