Prospects of Economic Integration among the ECO Countries

Pervez Tahir
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Pervez Tahir: Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad.

The Pakistan Development Review, 2004, vol. 43, issue 4, 913-923

Abstract: Promotion of Intra-regional trade is the most important economic justification for regional economic blocs. This paper examines such prospects in the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) region, a grouping of ex-RCD and Central Asian States. It is shown that the progress is extremely slow and the time table fixed for the implementation of the ECO Trade Agreement is ambitious, given the lukewarm will to cooperate, the unsettled state of affairs in Afghanistan, and the dirigistic legacy of central planning in the Central Asian States.

Keywords: regional Cooperation; Economic Integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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