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  • Client: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Country: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
  • Region: Asia and Pacific, SASEC
  • Year: 2015

The present study explores opportunities and challenges for intra- and inter-regional trade in the Central and South Asia areas by analyzing a wide range of channels impacting trade. Trade enhancing channels are divided into two broad categories. The first set refers to disaggregated or product-level characterizations of trade affecting competitiveness and complementarities between trading partners within and between the regions. The second refers to price, non-price and structural determinants that tend to affect all products traded between countries. The analysis also includes a gravity model to gauge the effect of economic growth, distance and price, non-price and structural determinants of regional trade.