South Asia’s worst problems – poverty, conflict, hunger, and gender inequalities – are largely concentrated in its lagging regions, where there are limits to growth, because geography, institutions, and globalization will continue to favor the concentration of economic activity in the leading regions. With migration to leading regions low, poverty remains concentrated in the lagging regions.
南亚面临的几个最深重问题——贫困，冲突，饥饿以及性别歧视——几乎都集中落后地区。由于地理因素，制度因素以及全球化都将继续向经济活动较为集中的发达地区倾斜，落后地区的发展还将受到诸多限制。而向发达地区迁移的人口数量又不多，因此贫困仍将集中在落后地区。