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M1L1: India-Central Asia

on September 15, 2019

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M1L3: Soviet legacy and infrastructure linkages

The C5 countries that were earlier part of the former Soviet Union had to rely on railroad infrastructure that was developed through a centrally planned economy from Moscow. The Soviet railways system spun outward like a web from Moscow. Thousands of kilometers of broad-gauge tracks were laid in Central Asia. However, the system was designed to serve the Russian homeland. Out of five Central Asian countries, only Kazakhstan (with China) and Turkmenistan (with Iran) have rail connections with other countries outside the former USSR. Thus, these countries had very little connection with other transregional markets. Not only outside the borders of former Soviet Union, intraregional trade within the erstwhile Soviet Union also got severely restricted and remained unexploited due to lack of feasible connectivity. With the end of the Soviet Union, the rail systems inherited by Central Asia were cut off from their primary destination (Moscow) by a new international border and depri...

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M1L1: India-Central Asia

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