{"title":"The Compromised Healthcare Sector of India and Other Southeast Asian Countries","authors":"M. Goswami","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter aims to focus on the umpteen challenges in the healthcare sector of India which temper the possibility of partnerships with India and the 10 Southeast Asian countries. India's expenditure on the healthcare sector is only 1% of GDP, less than neighboring ASEAN countries. The Indian Government has privatised the healthcare sector. In the second wave of COVID-19, public and private hospitals are operating at full capacity with shortages of life-saving medicines, oxygen, ventilators, and vaccines. Lower middle-income groups and the poor are suffering the most. Nations of the world, medical scientific community, and pharmaceutical companies put their resources together to discover a vaccine for coronavirus within a year. To have an effective and sustainable model of doing business in healthcare, it is important to have partnerships and integrating best practices and innovations for improving and providing equitable and affordable access to healthcare.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117235996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Analysis of Tourism Opportunities and Challenges Post COVID-19 Between India and Southeast Asia","authors":"Munish Kumar Duggal, Harpreet Kaur","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter attempts economic analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the economies of Southeast Asia and India. The impact on tourist footfalls, tourism revenues, national GDPs, and employment will be focused on. The challenges thrown by COVID-19 relating to safety, hygiene, mindshare, and digital tools could help evolve a structurally different tourism landscape in the post-COVID-19 world. Long haul travel may not happen soon, and the countries must develop products incorporating proximity tourism, vaccine tourism, and domestic tourism. Intra-ASEAN travel will have to be developed further to offset the losses caused by the curtailment of long-haul travel. Historical and cultural linkages between Southeast Asia and India should be leveraged to extend Intra-ASEAN travel to the Northeastern States of India. This would create a win-win situation for Southeast Asia as well as India. Targeted investments and subsidies aimed at confidence building of travelers and other stakeholders will go a long way to minimize the economic impact of external shock caused by COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"351 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122840804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strengthening the Bilateral Relationship Between India and Thailand Through Tourism","authors":"Harpreet Kaur, Ayasha Siddika","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch008","url":null,"abstract":"India and Thailand have a long-term relationship. Both countries geographically are in extended neighbourhood and share a maritime boundary. Both countries taken together constitute 18.6% of the world's population. They have deep rooted similar history, cultures, philosophies, and religions. They share the same link of Buddhism. Even Hinduism has some reflection on Thai architecture, arts, names of cities, sculpture, dance, drama, and literature. In this chapter, Thailand has been chosen due to physical proximity, cultural, and ideological similarities with India. India and Thailand have celebrated more than 70 years of bilateral diplomatic relationship. In the past two decades, with regular political exchanges of growing trade and investment, India's relationship with Thailand has grown into a comprehensive partnership. India's ‘Act East' policy has been complemented by Thailand's ‘Act West' policy in bringing the two countries closer. Both countries are important regional partners under BIMSTEC linking Northeastern Indian states with Southeast Asia.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132770758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The BIMSTEC Free Trade Area","authors":"Mahboob Ali, Anita Medhekar","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch006","url":null,"abstract":"The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional cooperation between Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, and Thailand since the liberalization of these economies. Member countries need to be more proactive for integrated regional cooperative hubs to enhance trade and investment opportunities in health and other sectors of the economy to cope with the pandemic and its impact. The aim of this chapter is to show how BIMSTEC, a regional cooperative body, can be a driver for socio-economic development, inter-regional trade, and investment opportunities for BIMSTEC countries and cope with COVID-19 and its impact. The BIMSTEC area is home to approximately 1.6 billion citizens accounting to 22% of the worlds inhabitants with a joint gross domestic product (GDP) of 2.7 trillion. Unemployment situation of ‘new poor' can be tackled through close cooperation among the BIMSTEC nations in an effective manner to achieve ‘pareto optimality' through trade and investment among member countries.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124860076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Institutional Assistance and Information Source on Food Security Policy Analysis","authors":"M. Rusliyadi","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch003","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter analyzes the role of institutions, sources of funding/assistance, and source information in terms of food security and extension policies. The result of the research shows the information on problematic areas in policy implementation with respect to food security and extension policies in terms of poverty reduction. The role of the institution, assistance, and source information are useful in the implementation of other policy sectors in the future, because similar issues or problems may be avoided by taking precautions not to repeat the same mistakes or by applying measures that address the implementation issues. In this way, policy implementation can be carried out effectively, and the outcomes will meet the policy objectives.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"31 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132570311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the Future Possibilities of India-ASEAN Economic Relations","authors":"Ezeifekwuaba Tochukwu Benedict","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch010","url":null,"abstract":"Foreign trade relations are due to the measures of foreign policy adopted and applied by a nation. The Indian foreign policy was majorly West focused and has been substituted with a more nuanced and inclusive policy that promotes the enhancement of security, diplomatic, and trade ties with the Eastern nations. The “Look East” Policy was executed in 1991 and it was substituted as “Act East” in 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who provided a modern push to the Indian regional diplomacy by concentration on Southeast Asian neighbours. This policy is known as a multi-faceted technique to create strategic connections with numerous individual nations as well as build a lasting relation with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In this regard, this chapter evaluates the role and responsibility of border states in revitalizing regional socio, cultural, and economic ties with the neighbouring countries. This chapter evaluates how the participation of Northeastern Indian States provides opportunities for New Delhi in ensuring a tremendous regional diplomacy with ASEAN.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125337184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BIMSTEC","authors":"Namita Kapoor, Tavishi Tewary, Annanya Mohanty","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch005","url":null,"abstract":"The ongoing pandemic has drastically affected the Bay of Bengal countries. Greater cooperation is suggested as these countries are fighting against the common problem and challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. Regional cooperation has become important to overcome the barriers that are mainly pandemic driven which has resulted in an increase in the cost of production and trade in the region. The chapter discusses the benefits that India is likely to get with higher integration with the immediate neighbouring countries with special reference to BIMSTEC region. The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) region is a dynamic region with trade as the driver of growth. The region is often overlapped with SAARC regional grouping with almost similar members. BIMSTEC gained its lost recognition in the year 2016, due to its high growth potential to develop sustainably.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128940316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promoting Trade and Economic Relations via Buddhist Spiritual Tourism Circuit Between India and Southeast Asia","authors":"Anita Medhekar, Farooq Haq","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch009","url":null,"abstract":"Spiritual tourism is one of the oldest forms of tourism. The purpose of this chapter is to review the key reasons for lack of promotion of investment and economic relations via tourism services related to Buddhist heritage and spiritual tourism circuit and sites to Southeast Asian countries as well as to domestic tourists. Sarnath, in Varanasi, is the hub of Buddhism in India, opened in 2016. There is road, rail, and air connection from Sarnath to various other Buddhist sites. This circuit can be promoted in counties of Southeast Asia and South Asia to spiritual followers of Buddhism as well as ‘New Age' Buddhists. Thailand, Japan, and Korea have invested in spiritual infrastructure in Sarnath for their citizens who visit for Buddhist pilgrimage. This chapter identifies the challenges, opportunities, and provides recommendations for the Indian government to provide a business friendly environment and to encourage foreign direct investment for state-of-the-art infrastructure development from Southeast Asian nations around the Buddhist spiritual tourism circuit.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125946801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Look-East Act-East Policy","authors":"Anita Medhekar, Harpreet Kaur","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch001","url":null,"abstract":"The Indian Government's ‘Look-East' foreign policy initiative of 1990s and renewed as Act-East in 2016, with countries bordering with the North-Eastern States of India, is a platform to cultivate and strengthen socio-economic and political ties by establishing strategic relationships with the Southeast Asian economies through bi-lateral and multilateral trade, which has been neglected since 1947. The aim of the Act-East policy is to build cultural, commerce, connectivity, and capacity building via trade, tourism, tradition, talent, and technology transfer between North-Eastern India and the Asian neighbours. This chapter critically evaluates measures taken by the Indian Government under this policy to enhance business and trade opportunities with Southeast Asian countries for peace, achieving sustainable development goals, and economic progress.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134147825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating Export Potential of India to Southeast Asian Countries","authors":"A. Şeker","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5774-7.ch002","url":null,"abstract":"It is crucial to estimate the export potential of countries in order to determine new export markets and increase their share of export markets. The chapter aims to determine the potential Southeast Asian export market for India by comparing the potential export level with the actual export from India to Southeast Asian countries. The frequency of the variables is annual and belongs to the period between 1996 and 2018. As a result of the analyses, it has been determined that Indian exports to Myanmar, Vietnam, and Singapore are slightly above its export potential, while its exports to Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines are far above its export potential. In addition to this, it is determined that India has a high export potential to Brunei, Cambodia, and Thailand amongst Southeast Asian countries.","PeriodicalId":359098,"journal":{"name":"Evaluating Trade and Economic Relations Between India and Southeast Asia","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122739706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}