New geopolitics and South Asia’s commerce structure
Ganeshan WignarajaAmit BhandariAliasger Bootwalla
Up to date on: Aug 10, 2025 11:20 pm IST
This paper is authored by Ganeshan Wignaraja, Amit Bhandari and Alisager Bootwalla, Gateway Home, Mumbai.
Geopolitics is more and more intertwined with the financial future of South Asia. Even earlier than the US tariffs have been rolled out, rising polycrises had hit the worldwide financial system, which has been struggling for the reason that pandemic. South Asia appears a comparatively brilliant spark of regional commerce and progress. This paper analyses South Asia’s commerce structure within the backdrop of a sluggish world financial system within the 2020s, and makes suggestions for nearer regional financial integration.
South Asia right now is the world’s most populated area and quickest rising, in a world financial system experiencing a interval of tepid progress and instantly confronted with mounting dangers. This financial actuality has put the worldwide highlight on South Asia with some financial historians drawing parallels between the gloomy world financial system right now and the financial uncertainties and commerce protectionism of the Nineteen Thirties period. This paper critically analyses South Asia’s commerce structure within the sluggish world financial system within the 2020s and makes suggestions for nearer regional financial integration.
4 points referring to South Asia’s progress, commerce and commerce structure are examined, with a deal with the interval for the reason that Covid-19 pandemic and April 2025:
(1) Messy geopolitics, the worldwide and South Asian outlook, and India’s relations with smaller neighbours,
(2) Shifts in China-centric international provide chains to South Asia,
(3) Patterns of regional vitality connectivity and cooperation in South Asia, and
(4) The effectiveness of regional establishments for South Asia’s commerce and regionalism.
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This paper is authored by Ganeshan Wignaraja, Amit Bhandari and Aliasger Bootwalla, Gateway Home, Mumbai.
