Fracture of interstate relations India's top risk stemming from Covid: WEF

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A fracture of interstate relations could be India’s biggest risk coming out of the pandemic. This topped a list of critical risks for India over the next two years, according to Geneva-based World Economic Forum’s Executive Opinion Survey (EOS), whose results were released on Tuesday.
 

Other top risks include a debt crisis in large economies, widespread youth disillusionment, failure of technology governance and digital inequality.
 

It defines fracture of interstate relations as ‘economic, political and/or technological rivalries between geopolitical powers, resulting in a fracture of bilateral relations and/or growing tensions’. It refers to relations between countries.
 

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