The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) Research Fellow, Abdul Basir Azimi, attended the 4th Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Think Tank Forum. This Forum was co-organized by CAREC Institute, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Regional Knowledge Sharing Initiative (RKSI), and International Economics and Finance Institute (IEFE) of the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on 27-28 August 2019 in one of the ancient cities and starting points of the Silk Road, Xian, Shaanxi Province, in China.
The theme of the program was “Trading for Shared Prosperity”. The forum participants discussed regional integration, trade as means of achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), ongoing trade disputes, standardizing logistics along the Silk Road, technological interventions, e-commerce and their impacts on the regional economy.