INDIA’S LOOK EAST POLICY: A DYNAMO OF CHANGE IN THE ASIAN ECONOMIC AND POLITICALLANDSCAPE

Abstract

This paper intends to expound on the reasons
behind India’s adoption of the Look East Policy which it
had intended to utilize in jumpstarting its laggard
economy and be at par with the tigers of the East, namely
Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan and Hongkong, to
name a few. This policy calls for the establishment of
better cultural, trade and political links with these
industrialized countries and in the process attain increased
productivity and development. Indeed, the adoption of
such policy has catapulted the economies of such rising
countries as India, Singapore and Malaysia to greater and
unprecedented heights.