Trade in Services in South Asia

Foreword - Aaditya MattooIntroduction: Opportunities and Risks of Liberalizing Trade in Services - Saman KelegamaSaman KelegamaIndia - Rupa Chanda Pakistan - Fasih UddinSri Lanka - Deshal De MelBangladesh - Ananya RaihanNepal - Navin DahalMaldives - Janaka Wijayasiri and Jagath DissanayakeBhutan - Pema R RinchenLiberalizing Trade in Services: A South Asian Perspective - Rashmi BangaDomestic Regulation in GATS and South Asia: Integrating the Domestic Reform Agenda with GATS Disciplines - Parashar Kulkarni Index

Saman Kelegama is the Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka and was the President of the Sri Lanka Economic Association (SLEA) during 1999-2003. He has published extensively on Sri Lankan and regional economic issues in both local and international journals. His latest books are: Foreign Aid in South Asia: The Emerging Scenario (2012), Trade Liberalization and Poverty in South Asia (joint editor 2011), Migration, Remittances, and Development in South Asia (2011), Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia: Beyond SAFTA (2010), Trade in Services in South Asia: Opportunities and Risks of Liberalization (2009), South Asia in the WTO (2007), Development under Stress: Sri Lankan Economy in Transition (2006), Contemporary Economic Issues: Sri Lanka in the Global Context (2006), South Asia After the Quota System: The Impact of the MFA Phase-Out (2005), Economic Policy in Sri Lanka: Issues and Debates (2004), Ready-Made Garment Industry in Sri Lanka: Facing the Global Challenge (2004), and many more. He is the co-editor of the South Asia Economic Journal (Sage Publications) and serves as a referee for a number of international journals. He serves and had served in a number of government and private sector Boards as an independent member. He received his Doctorate (D.Phil.) and Masters in Economics from University of Oxford, U.K. Masters in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

This volume…is an important contribution to the limited literature on services reform in South Asia. The mosaic of perspectives on the opportunities and risks of liberalization …is bound together by an insightful introduction. These contributions will deepen the discussion on services reform in each country. The juxtaposition of country studies offers each country an opportunity to learn from the experience of others. The volume should also provoke the much-needed debate on the political feasibility and economic desirability of a more integrated regional market for services.