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South Asia Regional Integration

Geoff Riley

17th December 2014

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Intra-regional trade in South Asia is among the lowest in the world - just 5% of national output compared to 25% for the ASEAN region. This World Bank video looks at the importance of regional economic integration as a way of boosting trend growth rates for a region that contains 40% of the world's extreme poor.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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