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The economic and political changes in Myanmar over the last two years along with the Modi government’s ‘Look East’ economic policy recognise the tremendous need for integrating one of the least developed region of South Asia namely —India’s north eastern states, Bangladesh, and Myanmar who share borders with each other. The book explores how greater trade in the sub-region can be a vehicle for economic integration and raise living standards for its people. It also analyses the challenges of non-trade issues such as connectivity, investments, infrastructure, deficiencies in logistics, lack of technical capacity, etc., which act as hindrances to economic cooperation as well as integration.

The book is the research collaboration of scholars from leading institutions of India, Myanmar, and Bangladesh to analyse important aspects of economic integration and cooperation from the perspective of each of these countries so as to overcome the challenges that act as a deterrent to poverty eradication in the sub region. The initiative was funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by the Indian Council for Research on International Economics Relations (ICRIER).

Contents: Foreword. 1. Introduction/Nisha Taneja, Deb Kusum Das and Samridhi Bimal. 2. India-Myanmar Political and Economic Relations/Nyunt Maung Shein. 3. India-Myanmar Relations: Opportunities and Critical Gaps/Sonu Trivedi. 4. Trade Patterns and Potential in the Sub-region: India, Myanmar and Bangladesh/Nisha Taneja, Sreerupa Sengupta and Shubhdeep Deb. 5. Market Access Under Preferential Agreements in the Sub-region: India, Myanmar and Bangladesh/Nisha Taneja, Deepika Wadhwa and Shubhdeep Deb. 6. Market Access and India/Zin Zin Naing and Khin Thida Nyein. 7. Sub-regional Trade and Investment Cooperation between Bangladesh

and India: The Case of the Readymade Garments Sector/Selim Raihan and Farazi Binti Ferdous. 8. Bangladesh-India-Myanmar Trade-Investment Scenario: Issues and Prospects/Farazi Binti Ferdous and Selim Raihan. 9. India’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment: Prospects for Myanmar and Bangladesh/Samridhi Bimal and Deb Kusum Das. 10. Indian Foreign Direct Investment in Myanmar/Tin Htoo Naing and Myo Myo Myint. 11. Connectivity and Transaction Costs between India and Myanmar/Tun Min Sandar. 12. Transaction Costs Analysis of India’s Trade with

Bangladesh and Myanmar/Nisha Taneja and Deepika Wadhwa.