"Look East as a concept is quite old tracing back to the silk route but as a Foundation we are new and have started deciphering compex cultural walls and barriers that still dot the region. Having started with the key sector of Healthcare leveraging the software capabilities of India along with China's hardware capabilities we are now engaging other sectors at various levels. The value proposition of our core deliverable is also new and therefore it might take longer to arrive at what we actually bring to table. Please do not dismisss us yet.
Our broad social objective is to bridge cultural differences for effecting better relationship amongst Asian nations at B2B and C2C levels while working in tandem with existing and emerging government policies. We have a large bandwidth for collaborative engagement and welcome more and more well-intentioned people, concerned with societies's sustainibility get together with our foundation.
We pray for your continued support."
Look East Foundation
India’s North Eastern States’ cultural and economic affinity with the ASEAN nations a key advantage for the Look East Policy
We are fast entering into an era of ‘Culture Capitalism’ where true wealth would lie in cultural circles. That seems to be the new order being brought about by India and China, perhaps to their own ignorance, nevertheless a new fact, a new game, a new rule which the new audiences understand ‘instinctively’ .... ....It would seem, logically speaking, that since these two cultures co-existed just beyond the mountains and traded silk, spices, martial arts and what not, that they would be similar and harmonic, to a degree at least? Right, yes only to a degree and it stops right there and I doubt if the degree is even a real number. A typical PRC Chinese has no-idea whatsoever (please don’t include the indophiles who are found everywhere in the world today) of a normal, day-to-day Indian and the same is true vice-versa. An Indian would mimic the Chinese dialect when talking of Chinese as ching-chong or something more creative and the Chinese toddler would point at someone with a darker skin and bigger eyes on the street and exclaim ‘Indu’, the Chinese word for an Indian. The bridge starts and ends right there. The Chinese conjures the Indian as dark with beautiful eyes and Indians think the Chinese with small eyes and a funny language. That does not speak of a thousand and thousand years of cultural integration does it? Confused? Let’s start again... ……..The Great Dragon Ushers Healthcare System Reforms Starting 2009 – A Concept Whitepaper
2009- Dawn of a new era in Chinese Healthcare System. China is growing fast and economic and social reforms introduced over the past 25 years have had tremendous success in improving the lot for the common man. There are, however, arguably more dimensions to measure ‘Development’, one of the new interesting proposals being Development Quality Index[1] (DQI). DQI has three dimensions: Economic, Health and Knowledge and the writer argues economic policies and geographical factors could play better roles if coupled with effective institutional framework that help raise development quality and simultaneously reduce inequalities and polarization across regions. Recent studies show that while the overall regional development quality level improved in China, inter-regional polarization widened indicating a rising concentration of development gains from economic reform policies in some regions. In our analysis, there is a ditto adoption of this larger national DQI in the trend for adoption of ICT in Healthcare in China. What amplifies the alarm bells are the soaring healthcare costs. Like the US, China’s healthcare costs have also risen at a rate higher than the income. Between 1990 and 2006 incomes increased 5-7 times whereas outpatient costs rose 12 times[2].
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