Revisiting India-East Asia Connections: Problems and Prospects
Contents: Foreword. Introduction/Sandeep Kaur. Part I. Building Diaspora, Infrastructure and Connections in India-East Asia Relations: 1. Indian diaspora in Thailand: cementing historical and cultural relations/Reena Marwah. 2. India’s coverage on connectivity corridor with Southeast Asia/Sunetra Ghatak. 3. Trans Asia connectivity and economic corridors: sustainable financing for economic development/Muhammad Ayub Mehar. Part II. Evaluating Role of China in India-East Asia Connections: 4. India-China maritime cooperation: avoiding nuclear rivalries/Rajesh Kumar. 5. Sources of China’s export growth: a constant market share analysis/Kulwinder Singh, Ajay Ranga and Rajiv Kumar. 6. An analysis of India’s exports instability to China/Surinder Kumar Singla. 7. An analysis of Chinese perspectives on Indian: Look East Policy/Shubham Karmakar. Part III. Measuring Value Chain and Trade Relations in India-East Asia: 8. India’s participation in global value chain with selected east asian countries: exploring the facts/Sandeep Kaur, Manpreet Kaur and Harpreet Singh. 9. External barriers to India’s agricultural exports during WTO regime/Manpreet Singh and Paramjit Nanda. 10. Measuring the concentration of India-East Asia Trade/Divya Vaid and Meenu. 11. Export diversification and economic growth: a case study of some selected emerging economies/Vishal Sarin and Naveen Sood. 12. India and ASEAN trade relations: an empirical analysis/Kuldeep Singh and Jaskiran Kaur. Part IV. Building Economic Relations in India-East Asia: 13. Knowledge economy, institutions and public policy: the case of east Asia and south Asian economies/Baldev Singh Shergill. 14. Capital goods industry in East Asia: A study of Indian Firms/Swarnjeet Kaur and Swati Mehta. 15. Relationship between FDI outflows and economic growth: evidence from developing Asia/Vishal Sarin and Suresh Kumar.
Two key pillars of India’s present foreign policy i.e. ‘Neighbourhood First’ and ‘Act East’ have strong geostrategic and geo-economic relevance in the modern capitalism. In view of this, the present book aims to reinvigorate the geostrategic and geo-economic connections of India with Asia. This book is an outcome of Indian Council of World Affairs sponsored National Conference ‘Revisiting India-East Asia Connections: Problems and Prospects’ held on 7-8 March 2019 at the Department of Economic Studies, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. The book is divided into four parts: Building Diaspora, Infrastructure and Connections in India-East Asia Relations, Evaluating Role of China in India-East Asia Connections, Measuring Value Chain and Trade Relations in India-East Asia and Building Economic Relations in India-East Asia. Further, the book disseminates knowledge and information on the various themes particularly Indian diaspora, maritime cooperation, global value chain, etc.
