The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Institute organized the fourth CAREC Think Tanks Development Forum (CTTDF) in cooperation with 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 with a theme of “Trading for Shared Prosperity” in one of the ancient cities and starting points of the Silk Road, Xian, Shaanxi Province, the PRC.
The forum participants from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, the PRC, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan and Tajikistan, discussed regional integration, trade as a means of achieving 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.