Rise of the North East

Description

This book gives a detailed assessment of the scope for strengthening economic capacities across sectors, ensuring economic prosperity through connectivity, and discusses the resource gaps. It comprehensively captures the wide range of economic possibilities existing in the north eastern region of India in terms of sectors, local resources, and expertise. Further, the book identifies gaps in supply chains and host of other factors around limited economic capacities and continued connectivity deficiencies that hold the region back. Key indicators like poverty and social sectors like health and education are presented in detail to cover the context in terms of the development parameters aligned with the SDGs. The wide variation in state-specific contexts has been captured based on full utilization of available data and information. In this book India's north-east comprising of eight states have been looked at from the perspectives of India's Act East policy, development cooperation with the neighbouring countries, promotion of trade including border trade, connectivity and economic corridors, infrastructure, and industrialization. In this direction, it makes several recommendations on drivers of economic growth and enablers of social sector development.

About the author:

Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) is a New Delhi-based autonomous policy research institute that specializes in issues related to international economic development, trade, investment, and technology. RIS is envisioned as a forum for fostering effective policy dialogue and capacity-building among developing countries on global and regional economic issues.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 COVID-19 and Development Process in North-Eastern States

Chapter 2 State Initiatives and Localization of SDGs

Chapter 3 Drivers of Economic Prosperity and Sustainable Livelihood

Chapter 4 Climate Adaptive Agriculture and Diversification

Chapter 5 Nutrition, Health, and Well-being

Chapter 6 Education, Skill Development, and Entrepreneurship

Chapter 7 Communication, Connectivity, and Infrastructure Development

Chapter 8 Financing the SDGs