Current Affairs - National - Discussion

A report of World Bank named 'A Glass Half Full: The Promise of Regional Trade in South Asia', India's trade in goods with South Asia could be at $62 billion and that with Pakistan could be at $37 billion without trade barriers. The present trade amounts to $19 billion with South Asia and $2 billion with Pakistan. This could be improved with Deeper regional trade and connectivity and access to South Asian regions, Substituting fossil fuels by cleaner hydropower from Nepal and Bhutan, Addressing mutual trust deficits, Nontariff barriers and Liberalization.