ASIAN BUSINESS

ENVIRONMENT
BE 9
Pushkar Bajracharya
SCOPE AND GROWTH
 ASEAN
 APEC

 South Asia

 BIMSTEC
SAARC
 Bilateral and preferential arrangements
 SAPTA, 1995

 SAFTA, 2004

SAFTA instruments
 Trade liberalisation

 ROO

 Institutional arrangements

 Consultation and dispute settlement

 Safeguard measures

 Additional measures: harmonisation, customs

cooperation, simplification
ASIAN ECONOMY
 Japan
 The Asian tigers

 ASEAN

 China and India

 Growth potentials

 Implications for Nepal

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