ISAS Briefs

The knowledge-intensive goods and services the world's more developed countries will continue to need but may not be able to produce if the states fail to invest in human skill development and physical infrastructure improvement, India and its sister South Asian states could fill the gap. Once again, the South Asian diaspora can help. They have the financial resources and knowledge and management expertise to develop new industries in what was once their homelands. But they will need help from the South Asian states to develop the instruments of finance and transfer of knowledge and management practices that would help to bring new industries to this part of the world.