T Nirmala DeviT. Nirmala Devi is professor and Director of the Center for SAARC Studies, Andhra University Visakhapatnam. After obtaining Ph. D. in Economics She has been working on South Asian studies for over two decades. She was a Baden- Wurttemberg Fellow at te South Asia Institute University of Heidelburg, Germany. Her other areas of interest are international economic, women's studies and demographic studies. Besides co-editing two books, WTO and Implications for South Asia (2006) and Regional Cooperation in South Asia: New Dimension (2002): she has authored three books, viz., Population and Development in SAARC (1996); Socio-Economic profile of SAARC Countries (1994); and Regional Economic and nearly sixty research papers on South Asia to her Credit. Read More Read Less