Services Global Supply Chains in ASEAN and East Asia

Implications and Opportunities for Regional Integration
2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-2810-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

The book provides the analytical framework as well empirical analysis of the development of services GVC in the ASEAN and East Asian region. This book provides extensive discussions at both regional level and respective country level development of services GVC activities. This book highlights discussions on the developments in services and structural transformation and regional development of services liberalization and alignment to the GVC in the ASEAN Member states as well as the East Asian countries of Australia, China, India, Japan, and Korea. The studies in this book also covers key and specific services development in terms of tourism, business services, logistics, heath, aviation, accounting, finance and insurance, BPO services, wholesale and retail, knowledge-based services using the GVC framework.
This book focuses on the development of services from a supply chain perspective and a deeper assessment of the implications for the policy coverage and design ofregional integration related to services. This book explores key issues related to migration, movement of people, digital trade, and skills development in the ASEAN countries to adapt to the new dimensions of the GVC activities in the region. This book presents 15 chapters with an overview chapter, country-specific chapters covering 13 ASEAN and East Asian countries and a policy discussion chapter.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kimura, Fukunari

Chen, Lurong

Thangavelu, Shandre Mugan

Findlay, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction to Services and GVC Activities ASEAN and East Asia.- 2.Changes in the Business Conditions of small and medium sizes enterprises during COVID-19: industry and regional analysis in Japan.- 3.Establishment Dynamics and Employment Growth of FDI Service Firms Evidence from Korea.- 4.Servicification and GVCs Evidence from Hi-tech Indian Manufacturing Firms.- 5.Impact of Servicification of Manufacturing on the Labor Market: The Case of Chinese Firm Level Data.- 6.Mapping the Philippines in the Offshoring Services Global Value Chain and A Closer Look at the Engineering Services Outsourcing.- 7.Global Value Chain of Medical Tourism: Case Study of Thailand.- 8.The Role of International Network in Indonesia’s Higher Education Services.- 9.Financial Services, Innovation, and Inclusive Growth in ASEAN and Singapore.- 10.Manufacturing Performance and Services Inputs: Evidence from Malaysia.- 11.Trade, Structure Adjustment in the Economy and Productivity Growth in Vietnam: Shifting to Service Sectors.- 12.Service Sector Development in Cambodia Employment Choice and Household Consumption of Services.- 13.Accounting and Services: Offshoring and Value-Chain.- 14.Determinants of Household Expenditures for Services: The Roles of Regional Value Chain.- 15.Services, GVC Activities, ASEAN Economic Community: Next Stage of Growth of Global Production Value Chain.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Shandre M. Thangavelu is currently the Head President of Jeffrey Cheah Institute for Southeast Asia and Senior Fellow at Jeffrey Sachs Centre for Sustainable Development at Sunway University, Malaysia. He also holds a joint appointment at the Institute of International Trade, University of Adelaide, Australia. Shandre Thangavelu was the Managing Editor for Asian Economic Journal (AEJ) in 2009 and currently appointed as the Editor in 2018. He was also appointed as the Fellow of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in 2017. Professor Shandre Thangavelu is an active researcher on human capital development, technology transfer, foreign direct investment, trade, government infrastructure investment, productivity, and economic growth. He has written extensively in ASEAN integration, FDI, human capital development, technology transfer and economic growth and has published his research in major international journals. He has written several books ontrade, investment, integration and outsourcing in Asia. He has also worked on several international projects commissioned by UNDP, World Bank, ASEAN Secretariat, APEC, and Asian Productivity Organization (APO).

Fukunari Kimura has been Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan since 2000 and Chief Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) since 2008. He is also a co-editor of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies. He was born in Tokyo in 1958 and received his Bachelor of Laws from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1982, Master of Science and Ph.D. from the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 and 1991. He worked for the International Development Center of Japan as Researcher during 1982–1986, the Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany as Assistant Professor during 1991–1994, and the Faculty of Economics, Keio University as Associate Professor during 1994–2000. He was also the President of Japan Society of International Economics during 2010–2012. His major is international trade and development economics. In particular, he has recently been active in writing academic/semi-academic books and articles on international production networks and economic integration in East Asia.

Dr Lurong Chen is a senior economist at ERIA. He obtained his PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. His main research areas are globalisation, FTAs, GVCs, economic digitalization, regional integration and trade in services. He advises international organisations on trade and development issues.

Professor Christopher Findlay was until October 2018 the Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions at the University of Adelaide. Earlier positions include Professor of Economics in theAsia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University (ANU) (1999 - 2005) and Head of the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide (2005 – 2011). He is now Honorary Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Adelaide.  Findlay has a PhD in Economics (1982) from the ANU. He is a Member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2002). He is also a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) (2007). Findlay’s research interests are now focussed on trade and investment in services.