CUTS-TradeForum] BBIN countries are building connections.

From: CUTS International

BBIN countries are building connections
Prabir De
East Asia Forum
June 24, 2017

The Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) sub-regional grouping has realised that narrowing connectivity gaps is a must for facilitating regional trade. Improved connectivity, which the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is only making slow progress on, is essential to providing cheaper access to goods and services, creating more jobs and ultimately helping to alleviate poverty at a faster rate.

The BBIN initiative, as such, has emphasised building connectivity from its beginning. Its vision involves increasing trade and cooperation within Eastern South Asia, ensuring faster movements of goods and people, building sustainable development through water resource management and striving for climate protection.

Please read this article at:

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/06/24/bbin-countries-are-building-connections/

Also, see CUTS International's current intervention in the BBIN sub-region on trade and connectivity - Creating an Enabling and Inclusive Policy and Political Economy Discourse for Trade, Transport and Transit Facilitation in and among Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Myanmar: Facilitating implementation and stakeholder buy-in in the BBIN+M sub-region (EPTAF Project) at:

http://www.cuts-international.org/bbinmva/

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