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Being one of the fastest growing and also among the most populous regions of the world, South Asia harbour is an extraordinary variety of natural and cultural diversity. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economies of most of them. In this chapter, we take a broad country overview of the selected countries of South Asia, namely India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand in terms of the overall demographic and socio-economic profile, status of agriculture and biodiversity, scenarios of trade and some of the key challenges to conservation of natural wealth.
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FOB stands for ‘free on board’ that is used to refer to export data. CIF stands for ‘cost with insurance and freight’ that is used to refer to import data. While FOB does not factor in insurance and freight charges for tradable commodities, CIF factors in the aforesaid costs. At the country level, usually there is a mismatch between export FOB and import CIF in most cases, as evident from table above (Tables 4.2 and 4.3). The corresponding figures for China are provided as reference in order to compare the relative trade preferences of the partners. Barring the trade with India, majority of the countries (with some exception of Thailand) exhibit very meagre trading both in terms of exports and imports.
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Bandyopadhyay, D. (2018). The South Asian Perspective. In: Securing Our Natural Wealth. South Asia Economic and Policy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8872-8_4
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