Thus, while limited differentiation may mean that, in the immediate term at least, regional supply chains might need to be less differentiated than most Asian supply chains (or only part of the production chain can be located in this region), the prevalence of manufactured product in regional exports also means that some basic infrastructure for the production of manufactured goods already exists in South Asia. Countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan may be able to host, simultaneously, both labour-intensive assembly-type activities and more technically demanding intermediate activity across different supply chains, while India may be able to straddle all but the most technically demanding aspects of the production process. In short, it is unlikely that South Asia will replicate the ‘flying geese’ model in the classic sense, so famously attributed to East Asian industrial development.