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Comment: SAPTA and SAFTA.

  • UPSC 1997
  • 20 marks
  • Regionalisation of World Politics

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The SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) and the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) are South Asia's two attempts to climb Bela Balassa's ladder of integration. That ladder runs from a preferential area through a free trade area, customs union, common market and economic union to complete integration. SAARC entered trade only in the 1990s,…

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  • SAPTA: the first rung
  • SAFTA: design
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  • India's role
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