Ch. 7: India and RCEP: Challenges and Opportunities of Opening Up the Farm/Food Sector
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This chapter appears in the book, Heading East: Security, Trade, and Environment between India and Southeast Asia. Edited by Karen Stoll Farrell and Sumit Ganguly.
Chapter abstract: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a sixteen country trade grouping slated to become the largest free trade area in the world, is emerging as one of India’s primary opportunities for increasing connectivity to East and Southeast Asia. Not only does this offer Indian producers access to a large Asian market but also the possibility of joining global value chains that would potentially increase trade with the rest of the world. Identifying India’s defensive and aggressive interests in agriculture and food processing, this chapter argues that Indian policymakers need to address domestic infrastructural deficits and policy reform bottlenecks if India is to fully exploit its opportunities from its trade connectivity with the east. They also need to re-examine the defensive interests, focus on export interests and place the conversation within the context of India’s overall interest in economic development and job creation.
ISBN
9780199467242
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
Oxford
Keywords
India, Southeast Asia, RCEP, Agricultural trade, Agricultural policy, Agricultural infrastructure, International trade
Disciplines
Asian Studies | International Relations | Political Economy | Regional Economics
Recommended Citation
Gupta, Surupa, "Ch. 7: India and RCEP: Challenges and Opportunities of Opening Up the Farm/Food Sector" (2016). Political Science & International Affairs Books. 15.
https://scholar.umw.edu/ps_ia_books/15