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2. Integrating Northeast with South East Asia: Great Expectations and Ground Realities

verfasst von : Atul Sarma

Erschienen in: Mainstreaming the Northeast in India’s Look and Act East Policy

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

While the Northeast Region of India has received a good deal of attention from the Government of India, development initiatives in the region have lacked a well-articulated policy framework. Two paradigms have dominated the Government of India’s Northeast India policy. One relates to overstress on security/strategic considerations rather than on economic aspects; the other relates to the minimum intervention in traditional systems and institutions of the hill economy, which has led to their non-compatibility with the functioning of a market system. The author attempts to analyse the proposition of Northeast India’s economic integration with the East and South East Asian countries and the possible gains to the region. The chapter discusses what initiatives the Northeast should take to maximize the economic gains through its integration with the South East Asian economies.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Towards a Perspective on the Look (Act) East Policy and Northeast India

Nächstes Kapitel Insider or an Outsider: Where Is the Northeast in India’s Act East Policy?

For detailed historical records, see Ray (2005).

For further details, see Alokesh Barua, “The Rise and Decline of the Ahom Dynastic Rule: A suggestive Interpretation” In Alokesh Barua (Ed.), op. cit. p. I05.

Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya share a border with Bangladesh, while Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland share one with Myanmar. Assam has a border with Bhutan, too. The Tibet region of China and Myanmar border Arunachal Pradesh.

Based on a survey conducted by Srinath Barua in 1996. See also N. Roy (2005).

For a critical discussion on the implications of LEP, see Das (2010).

This envisages investment and trade cooperation between Yunnan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and India’s Northeast; however, it has not made much progress yet.

Barua (2004).

The Stilwell Road which was built by Chinese labourers, Indian soldiers and American engineers and named after the American General, Joe Stilwell, provided a vital support to China’s besieged army as it fought Japanese occupation. The road transported 50,000 tonnes of bullets, guns and food in a brief period of ten months. This was once the Southern Silk Route, taking jade, silk, amber, spices, tea and Buddhism across ancient Asia. Times of India, September 18, 2005.

The governments of India and Bangladesh seem to have proposed this recently.

For further explanation, see Sarma (2005: 12–14).

Eyeing the vast potential of the South Asian market, and trying to attract investment to its south-west, China has already began to repair the old Burma Road to turn the 679 km stretch from Kunming to Myanmar into a six-lane highway and to help the latter to rebuild the road that lies within its jurisdiction.

CENISEAS Forum, “Towards A New Asia, Transnationalism and Northeast India,” held on September 10 and 11, 2004.

It is non-trade barriers like restrictions on transit, visas and custom regulations that have hindered further expansion of trade with them.

For further elaboration, see Khanna (2004: 19).

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In 1993 two states of the Northeast region—Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland—had real per capita income (at 1993 prices) above the all-India average. At the end of the decade, 1999–2000, the latest year for which the data except for Mizoram are available, none of the states in the region had a real per capita income above the national average, the gap ranging from 13.32 per cent for Nagaland to 42.54 per cent for Assam.

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For detailed discussion on how exactly these constraints have impeded the economic development of the region, see Atul Sarma (2005).

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Titel: Integrating Northeast with South East Asia: Great Expectations and Ground Realities
verfasst von: Atul Sarma
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Buch: Mainstreaming the Northeast in India’s Look and Act East Policy
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-5319-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-5320-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5320-7_2