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#37 Emerging Aid Architecture: Tightening the Conditionalities? July 2008
#36 Back to the Drawing Board: No Basis for Concluding the Doha Round of Negotiations, April 2008
#35 Building a Development- Friendly World Trading System, March 2008
#34 Towards a Global Compact for Managing Climate Change
#33 Broader Regional Economic Integration in Asia: An Agenda for the East Asia Summit Report of the RIS-ISEAS-IDE Sixth High-Level Conference on Asian Economic Integration (New Delhi, 12-13 November 2007), November 2007
#32 Strengthening International Competitiveness in Knowledge-based Industries: A Strategic Approach, August 2007
#31 Towards an Asian Regional Mechanism for Addressing Excess Foreign Exchange Reserves, Infrastructure Deficits and Global Imbalances, May 2007
#30 Restoring Afghanistan- Pakistan-India-Bangladesh-Myanmar (APIBM) Corridor:
Towards a New Silk Road in Asia
, March 2007
#29 Facilitating India’s Overland Trade in the Eastern Neighbourhood, December 2006
#28 Regionalism with an ‘Asian Face’: An Agenda for the East Asia Summit, October 2006
#27 Seizing New Opportunities for South-South Cooperation Some Proposals for the 14th NAM Summit, August 2006
#26 India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Economic Cooperation: Towards a Comprehensive Economic Partnership?, June 2006
#25 Case for a Robust India-Taiwan Economic Partnership?, June 2006
#24 Towards Comprehensive Economic Co-operation between India and Central Asian Republics? May 2006
#23 The Case for an Asian Currency Unit: Need for a Broad-based Approach? May 2006
#22 Doha Round and Developing Countries: Will the Doha deal do more harm than good? April 2006
#21 Trade Facilitation: Need to Strike a Balance between Pragmatism and Caution, December 2005
#20 Making Doha a Really Development Round, December 2005
#19 Doha Round's Development Impacts: Shrinking Gains and Real Costs, November 2005
#18 Biosafety Protocol, Precautionary Approach and Trade: Indentifying Plausible Policy Options, September, 2005
#17 Regional Trading Arrangements (RTAs) in the World and Asia: Options for India, August 2005
#16 High Risks of Global Imbalances: Role of Infrastructure Investments in Asia, August 2005
#15 Regional Cooperation for Poverty Alleviation and Food Security in Asia, July 2005
#14 Oil Shock and Cyclical Upturn in US Interest Rates: Implications for Asia, September 2004.
#13 UNCTAD XI and the Development Dialogue for the 21st Century, May, 2004.
#12 Future Directions of BIMST-EC: Towards A Bay of Bengal Economic Community (BoBEC), February, 2004.
#11 Managing Global Macroeconomic Imbalances: The US Current Account Deficit, Exchange Rate Flexibility and Asian Reserves, January, 2004.
#10 International Financial Architecture: An Agenda for Reform, January, 2004.
#09 Road to a Single Currency for South Asia, December, 2003.
#08 Energy Cooperation in South Asia: Potential and Prospects,  December, 2003.
#07 Cancun Agenda: Geographical Indications and developing CountriesJuly, 2003.
#06 Cancun Agenda: TRIPs and DevelopmentJuly, 2003.
#05 Cancun Agenda: Environmental Requirements and Developing Countries Exports, June, 2003.
#04 Cancun Agenda – Trade and Investment: The Way Forward for Developing CountriesJune, 2003.
#03 Reserve Bank of Asia: Institutional Framework for Regional Monetary and Financial CooperationMay, 2003.
#02 Initiative for Closer Economic Cooperation with Neighbouring Countries in South AsiaMay, 2003.
#01 Relevance of an Asian Economic Community, 2003