ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the connectivity situation, the initiatives that are underway analysing trends and ends with possible implications. Trade and investment linkages form the heart of economic relations across regions of the world. In modern times, connectivity on fronts such as road, rail, air, water as well as digital connectivity has become extremely important in furthering business to business or Business to consumers trade. Connectivity is one of the key enabling factors to grow trade among the regions apart from complementary comparative advantage of these regions. The chapter looks at the Logistics performance index which reflects efficiency in ports followed by liner shipping connectivity at a bilateral level between countries of south, east and Southeast Asia. The intra-regional bilateral connectivity in Southeast Asia and South Asia are comparable and have also grown on almost similar terms between 2006 and 2016. The Kaladan Multimodal project has been one of the most important connectivity initiatives between India and the rest of Asia.
