Trade,TrustDevelopment:SAsia

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

As the world’s economic center of gravity increasingly pivots to Asia, and as South Asia gradually enhances its role in the world economy, an economic understanding of the region becomes increasingly more important. This is a course about the evolution of South Asian countries, home to over 1.8 billion people, their contrasting development stories and paradigms, the economic and human interlinkages between them, and the vast untapped potential of those interlinkages. It is also about the significant foregone development opportunities arising from insufficient regional engagement, that affect most countries in South Asia, including the three largest countries. This is not a course about India alone, nor about India-Pakistan. It is about South Asia.