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Do you think that India’s ‘Look East policy would help a common Asian market, unlike European common market?

  • UPSC 2009
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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In Bela Balassa's sequence of integration (The Theory of Economic Integration, 1961), a common market comes after a free trade area and a customs union. It frees the movement of goods, services, capital and labour behind a common external tariff, as the European Economic Community did after the Treaty of Rome (1957). India's Look East…

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  • What Look East contributed
  • Why not a European-style common market
  • What Asia has instead
  • Conclusion
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