{"id":25835,"date":"2019-11-03T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T14:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=25835"},"modified":"2019-11-03T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T14:30:03","slug":"south-asian-countries-world-growth-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/south-asian-countries-world-growth-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"South Asian countries to lead the world growth by 2040, IMF forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to the latest research led by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), by 2040, South Asian countries would be contributing to one-third of the world&#8217;s economy if the growth continues in a similar pattern<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThese South Asian countries, under the divisions set by the IMF, include India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.<br \/>\nA paper released by the IMF called &#8216;Is South Asia Ready for Take-Off? A Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Agenda&#8217; demonstrates how South Asian countries have improved the levels of education and equipped its high population with the necessary skills for the developing world.<br \/>\n<strong>According to the Deputy Director of IMF-APAC region, more than 150 million new people will be joining the workforce in South Asia.<\/strong> As far as the countries are considered individually, they need to work in areas like education and foreign direct investment (FDI).<\/p>\n<h2>Education and Liberalisation will be key for the South Asian countries<\/h2>\n<p>India, with the best resources, would be leading the pack.<strong> India has one of the most brilliant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/coursera-to-increase-its-userbase-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tertiary education<\/a> systems. So India should keep working on that while improving the other aspects like the manufacturing sector.<\/strong> As more private companies enter the manufacturing market, this would create new jobs and opportunities for the upcoming workforce.<br \/>\n<strong>Bangladesh is one country that has shown remarkable growth in recent years. However, it is mostly based on the garment industry.<\/strong> There&#8217;s a lot that can be done for primary and secondary education. With this, it also needs to improve its infrastructure and open the way for the private sector too.<br \/>\n<strong>The key is to improve the education system and upskill the workers and graduates while promoting liberalization and globalization in all the countries.\u00a0<\/strong>It is difficult to forecast for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/india\/led-by-india-south-asia-moving-towards-becoming-centre-of-global-growth-imf-2372079.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">next 20 years<\/a>, but if everything goes according to the IMF&#8217;s implementation, the South Asian countries would together contribute to a lot more than 33% of the world&#8217;s economy.<br \/>\nHowever, reforms are necessary for this and the sooner these reforms are implemented, the better for these nations and the world.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest research led by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), by 2040, South Asian countries would be contributing to one-third of the world&#8217;s economy if the growth continues in a similar pattern. These South Asian countries, under the divisions set by the IMF, include India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. A paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":25838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}