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Discuss the factors for the decline of India’s presence in Latin America.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global South

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India and Latin America share no dispute, no rivalry and a common colonial past, yet around 2015 India's presence there looked to be shrinking. Trade, which had risen from about US$2 billion in 2000 to a peak of some US$46 billion in the early 2010s, then fell sharply while Indian political attention stayed marginal. The…

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  • Decline as artefact
  • Decline relative to China
  • Factors behind the real deficit
  • Perspective
  • Conclusion
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