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How has India’s ‘Look East’ policy taken shape in the past two decades and how it may affect India’s external trade?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Transport, Communication and Trade

Look East was announced in 1991-92 as a forced response to two simultaneous shocks — the balance-of-payments crisis and the collapse of the Soviet trade bloc, which had absorbed roughly a fifth of Indian exports on rupee-clearing terms.

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  • The policy is a reorientation of trade geography, not a diplomatic slogan
  • Trajectory — three phases in three decades
  • Phase I (1992-2003): commerce with maritime ASEAN
  • Phase II (2003-2014): widening and hardening
  • Act East (2014 onward): the North-East recast
  • Effect on external trade
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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