How can South Asia, home to a quarter of humanity but a small share of global output, benefit from the fourth industrial revolution?
South Asia is home to about a quarter of the world’s population but contributes only around 4% of global GDP. The chapter examines how the region can harness the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, drawing on the author’s work on least developed countries in this new technological era.
Read the book chapter at Trade and Regional Integration in South Asia (Springer),
As foreign direct investment concentrates in strategic sectors, how can developing countries find realistic entry points rather than join subsidy races they cannot win?
What strategies and operating choices explain why some non-African export credit agencies perform well in supporting transactions in Africa?
Sets out four routes – institutional capacity, productive capacity, digital transformation and resource mobilisation – through which aid for trade can make least developed countries more resilient to overlapping crises.
