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Why South Asia is considered as the world’s politically and economically least integrated region? Explain.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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Until 1947 the subcontinent worked as one economic and administrative space. Today intra-regional trade is under 6% of the region's total trade by India's official count, against about a fifth within ASEAN and roughly three-fifths in the European Union. The World Bank's A Glass Half Full (2018) put the region's trade with itself at about…

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