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Regional cooperation in South Asia began with the formation of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in 1985 by seven South Asian countries.

SFDRR felt a need to include increased participation from regional organizations like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperandon (APEC), and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in the Asia-Pacific region and similar organization in other continents.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's firm conviction in democracy is also well demonstrated in her statement made at the 16th SAARC Summit in Thimphu in April 2010 where she mooted first the idea of "SAARC Charter of Democracy".

Therefore, I hope that now, given the research and analysis, we can generate concrete action points to inform policy decisions at country and regional levels; We hope that these might, inter alia, inform the upcoming SAARC Summit in 2010, and also our discussions at other more technical levels in the sectoral areas.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Pakistan's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, as a "man of peace" on Thursday, after emerging from a meeting with him on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit in the Maldives.

Further research is required in this area in SAARC countries, as well as in other developing countries.

The coefficient showed that a 1% increase in MOB led to an increase of 0.192% in financial inclusion in SAARC countries from 2004 to 2014.

"There has been an increase in the events of landslides in the region in recent years," says Mriganka Ghattak, a specialist in geological disasters with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC's) Disaster Management Centre in Delhi.

Similarly, rural population (RPOP) and unemployment (UEMP) were negatively associated with financial inclusion in the SAARC countries: a 1% increase in rural population led to a 1.615% decrease in financial inclusion, and a 1% increase in UEMP led to a 0.671% decrease in financial inclusion.

From Table 8, based on model I (Fixed Effect Model – FEM), we concluded that mobile penetration (MOB), the proxy for mobile phone subscribers in SAARC countries, was positively associated with financial inclusion: a 1% increase in mobile penetration increased the level of financial inclusion by 0.131% in the SAARC countries during 2004 2014.

The biggest step that SAARC has taken in this respect, a regional free-trade area, involving sharp cuts in customs tariffs, is due to come into force on January 1st.