01192pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001600040245007600056260000900132300001300141362000800154520076800162650005600930650003600986773002401022180718b2006   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSarma, Atul  aThe north-east as gateway to South-East Asia: big dream and home truths  c2006  ap.35-50.  aJun  aIndia's `Look East policy' has led to a vision for the North-East: a gateway to South-East Asia. It has spurred a good deal of optimism about the possible gains to the region. It is in this context that the paper addresses questions such as: How does market integration work? What do we learn from the internationalization of the Assam economy in the past? How have formal and informal trade flows with the south-East Asia in the recent past impacted the North-East economies? What are the required enabling policy environment and physical infrastructure for trade linkage to yield gains? What initiatives should the North-East take to maximize the economic gains as and when the vision of its integration with the South-East Asia becomes a reality? - Reproduced.  aEconomic and social development - India, North East  aEconomic and social development  aMan and Development