RIS/SACEPS Brainstorming on Post-SAARC Summit 
Research Agenda

RIS, jointly with the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS), Dhaka organized a brainstorming session on Post-Summit Research Agenda on SAARC Economic Cooperation, in the forenoon of January 27, 2004 in New Delhi. Prof Muchkund Dubey, President, CSD, New Delhi chaired the meeting. The prominent speakers who participated in the discussion included Prof Rehman Sobhan, Executive Director, SACEPS, Dhaka; Dr A R Kemal, Director, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Pakistan; Dr Arjun Sengupta, Chairman, SACEPS; Dr Saman Kelegama, 

Executive Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Colombo; Prof. I.N. Mukherjee; Prof. Mahendra Lama (JNU), and Dr Nagesh Kumar, Director-General, RIS. The meeting concluded that signing of the SAFTA Agreement has thrown a major challenge before policy research institutions in the region to prepare analytical studies on different issues of negotiation to assist the policy makers such as rules of origin, and identified a list of topics for research.