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• Research collaboration among the United States, India, and ASEAN, especially in biotechnology, 8 nanotechnology, and oceans research should be facilitated through private–public partnerships. • Areas ripe for health collaboration between India, ASEAN, and the United States include (1) opportunities in telemedicine, especially for rural populations; 9 (2) improving health care access through smart infrastructure planning that puts a premium on access to medical facilities; and (3) sharing of best practices to improve health care outcomes in treating diseases endemic to the region. • Areas ripe for collaboration on clean water include storage, distribution, and pipelines to help maximize resource efficiency. Together, the United States, India, and ASEAN can develop low-cost clean water technologies. • An official trilateral dialogue on climate change between the United States, India, and ASEAN should be supplemented by collaborative research involving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences, and ASEAN institutions, especially on monsoon and tsunami monitoring and predictions. •India, ASEAN, and the United States should share best practices in urban planning and air and water management for growing cities. •India, ASEAN, and the United States should partner to minimize deforestation in the Indo- Pacific. • India, ASEAN, and the United States should coordinate response plans before natural disasters occur, allowing each country to deploy its resources more quickly and save lives. According to the ADB, the Indo-Pacific region is moving from a rural to urban majority faster than anywhere else on earth. 10 By building critical infrastructure and sustainable urban communities of the future, the Indo-Pacific region will make itself the nexus of twenty-firstcentury commerce, leveraging this trend of rapid yet sustainable urbanization. Akin to a demographic dividend, one could view this as an urbanization dividend. Failing to plan and swiftly implement strategies for rural-to-urban migration, not constructing cities that can accommodate breakneck growth, resource stress, and natural calamities, or neglecting to transparently support critical infrastructure linking major hubs will severely constrain the region’s potential, turning demographic dividends into disasters. Already, human and natural systems are dangerously stressed. Addressing issues of sustainability and human capacity building enhances the ability of our countries to deal with the region’s strategic challenges, including poverty. This “antivirus software” helps us deal with the downsides of greater connectivity. As the ADB has shown, the poor suffer the most from environmental degradation, which now threatens both economic growth prospects and Asia’s hard-won 8 Sachin Chaturvedi and Halla Thorsteinsdotter, “A Growing Southern Agenda: India’s South-South Health Biotechnology Collaboration,” in South-South Collaboration in Health Biotechnology (New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2012). 9 S. D. Muni and See Chak Mun, “ASEAN–India Relations: Future Directions,” ISAS Special Reports, May 25, 2012, 13, http://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/Attachments/PublisherAttachment/ISAS_Special_Report_05__- Asean-India_Relations_-_Future_Directions_New_25052012172612.pdf. 10 “Asia’s Booming Cities Must Go Green or Risk Disaster—ADB Study,” Asian Development Bank, August 15, 2012, http://www.adb.org/news/asias-booming-cities-must-go-green-or-risk-disaster-adb-study. 108 | Asia’s Arc of Advantage
gains against poverty. Economic growth in the region needs to include higher productivity growth, more innovation, strategies for coping with rapid urbanization, and greater regional integration. 11 ***** Full report available at: http://csis.org/fi les/publication/130621_Osius_EnhancingIndiaASEAN_WEB.pdf 11 Rajat Nag, “Asia’s Challenges: Beyond the Fast Lane, Ensuring Inclusive and Green Growth,” presentation, CSIS, Washington, DC, March 20, 2012. Appendices | 109
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A REPORT OF THE ICRIER WADHWANI CHA
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ICRIER Wadhwani Programme of Resear
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VI.i “Connecting East : The Myanm
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The ICRIER Wadhwani Chair is please
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space, even though some would argue
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Recommendations The “Emerging Asi
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• Based on their regional experie
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List of Maps Map 1: The Indo-Pacifi
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I.iii India’s ‘Look East’ and
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Concrete Next Steps Under instructi
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easons. The lack of historical bagg
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II INDIA’S ROLE IN SHAPING ASIAN
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power. It also holds that within As
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institution for political and strat
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global Cold War issues. When the AS
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co-operation. Although the pace of
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