Assessment of India’s progress towards the MDGs shows a notable but uneven achievement across goals, targets and states. India has achieved the target for halving poverty and is likely to attain gender parity in primary, ...

This paper presents the report of the High-level Policy Dialogue on Development Challenges Facing the Subregion (New Delhi, 15-16 December 2011), which was organized to coincide with the opening of the United Nations ESCAP ...

<p></p> Foreign capital flows have emerged as key channels of global economic integration all across the world over the past two decades. While foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have been undertaken for a long time ...

Limitations of cross-border transport connectivity has been observed to have curtailed the full potential of trade led development in the Southern Asian subregion. Inefficiencies of international transport has hurt the ...

This paper analyses the current development in trade in services in South Asia. South Asia’s language heritage, strong traditions of higher education, computer savvy diaspora and embrace of modern telecom infrastructure, ...

This paper focuses on identifying South Asia’s progress in food security in the last quarter century; constraints that prevented the region from achieving the targets established; and opportunities for realizing sustainable ...