Mikic / Jetin ASEAN Economic Community

A Model for Asia-wide Regional Integration?
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-53508-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten

The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community raises key issues: the deepening of regional trade and production sharing, and the associated problem of exchange rate management. This volume questions the capacity of a shallow institution to deal with complex consequences on employment and inclusiveness, creativity and connectivity, and inequality and social cohesion. At a time when broader agreements are competing for regional leadership, contributors debate whether ASEAN can serve as a model of integration or else be diluted in wider Asian and Pacific arrangements. Approaches combine economics, history, geography, and political science to provide a clear understanding of ASEAN's potential and weaknesses in technical and non-technical but always readable terms.

Bruno Jetin is Researcher at the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia, Thailand, and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Brunei. He was previously Associate Professor of Economics at Sorbonne Paris Cité University, France, and Fellow Researcher at the University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Mia Mikic heads trade policy work in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and coordinates ARTNeT. She has also served as Professor of International Economics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and as Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mikic, Mia

Jetin, Bruno

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title Page;2
3;Title Page;4
4;Copyright Page;5
5;Table of Contents;6
6;List of Figures;8
7;List of Tables;10
8;Introduction;13
9;Part I ASEAN Economic Integration in the Context of East Asian Regionalism;21
9.1;1 ASEAN’s Imitation Economic Community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy;22
9.2;2 By Chance or by Virtue? The Regional Economic Integration Process in Southeast Asia;43
9.3;3 Trade Implications of the ASEAN+ Agreements for Other Asian Countries;68
9.4;4 Southeast Asian Countries in Global Production Networks;88
9.5;5 Impact of Monetary Regime and Exchange Rates on ASEAN Economic Integration;110
9.6;6 Global Value Chains and Competitiveness of the Integrated Regions: Exchange Rate Issues;135
9.7;7 Intra- and Extraregional Trade Costs of ASEAN Economies: Implications for Asian Regional Integration;160
10;Part II Impact of Regional Integration on Structural Change, Employment, and Inequalities;180
10.1;8 Regional Trade Agreements, Employment, and Inclusiveness;181
10.2;9 Economic Development with Improved Conditions of Employment and Reduced Inequality: What Choices Does ASEAN Have in the Medium and Long Term?;202
10.3;10 Does Outsourcing Enhance Skill Premiums in ASEAN?;222
10.4;11 Regional Integration and the Creative Economies of ASEAN: Assessing the Potential for a Single ASEAN Creative Economy;235
11;Part III Impact of Regional Integration on Poverty, Inequalities, and Social Cohesion;245
11.1;12 Social Cohesion, Economic Resilience, and Long-Term Growth in Southeast Asia and Developing Countries;246
11.2;13 Reduction of Absolute Poverty, Increase of Relative Poverty, and Growing Inequalities: A Threat to Social Cohesion;269
11.3;14 Investment in Infrastructure and Regional Integration: Will Connectivity Reduce Inequalities?;292
11.4;15 Within-Country Spatial Inequality and Local Governance Capacity: The Case of Indonesia;312
12;Conclusion;330
13;List of Contributors;340
14;Index;345