India-Pakistan Trade Normalisation

Nisha Taneja is a Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India. She has a PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and has a wide range of experience in policy-oriented research in India. Her key areas of interest include trade and transport facilitation, non-tariff barriers, regional integration, informal trade, institutional economics and the textile industry. She has worked on various aspects of India–Pakistan trade, India-Nepal trade, India–Sri Lanka trade, India-China trade, India-Japan trade, India-Korea trade, India-Bangladesh trade and India-Myanmar trade on issues related to tariffs, sensitive lists, services, investment, non-tariff measures, and trade and transport facilitation.Dr. Taneja‘s research work has been a key contributor to the trade negotiations in the South Asian region. She has served on committees set up by the Government of India on Informal Trade, Rules of Origin and Non-tariff Barriers. She has been a consultant to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Dr. Taneja has also conducted research for several government ministries, bilateral and multilateral agencies. Dr. Taneja has published 3 books, more than 50 articles in books and journals and 35 reports/working papers. She is the co-editor of the book India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations, published by Springer in August 2014. Her work has been disseminated widely in India and several other countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Korea, Japan, USA, UAE and Germany.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Emerging Issues in India-Pakistan Trade: An Introduction.- Chapter 3: Agricultural trade between India and Pakistan: Status and Potential.- Chapter 4: Exploring the Trade in Textiles and Clothing between India and Pakistan.- Chapter 5: Assessing the Future of Trade in the Automobile Sector between India and Pakistan: Implications of Abolishing the Negative List.- Chapter 6: India-Pakistan Trade: Perspectives from the Automobile Sector in Pakistan.- Chapter 7: India-Pakistan Trade: An Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Sector.- Chapter 8: India-Pakistan Trade: A Case Study of the Pharmaceutical Sector.- Chapter 9: India’s Informal Trade with Pakistan.- Chapter 10: India-Pakistan: 2nd Trade Perception Survey.- Chapter 11: Facilitating India-Pakistan Trade through the Land Route.- Chapter 12: Munabao-Khokhrapar Land Route and India-Pakistan Relations.- Chapter 13: Media Underreporting as a Barrier to India-Pakistan Trade Normalisation: Quantitative Analysis of Newsprint Dailies.