ASEAN Economic Community: A Model for Asia-wide Regional Integration?

by Mia Mikic (Editor), Bruno Jetin (Editor)

Overview

The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community raises key issues: the deepening of regional trade and the associated problem of exchange rate management. This volume questions the capacity of a shallow institution to deal with complex impacts on employment and inequality. Contributors analyze ASEAN's potential and weakness in readable terms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137537102
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/05/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bruno Jetin & Mia Mikic
PART I. ASEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF EAST ASIA REGIONALISM
1. ASEAN's Imitation Economic Community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy; Lee Jones
2. By Chance or by Virtue? The regional economic integration in South East Asia; Jean-Raphaël Chaponnière, Marc Lautier
3. Trade implications of the ASEAN+ agreements for other Asian countries; Mia Mikic
4. Southeast Asian Countries in Global Production Networks; Prema-chandra Athukorala
5. Impact of monetary regimes and exchange rates on ASEAN economic integration; Nabil Aflouk, Jacques Mazier and Myoung Keun On
6. Global Value Chains and competitiveness of the integrated region: exchange rate issues; Witada Anukoonwattaka
7. Intra and Extra-regional trade costs of ASEAN economies: Implications for Asian regional Integration;
Yann Duval
PART II. IMPACT OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION ON STRUCTURAL CHANGE, EMPLOYMENT, AND INEQUALITIES.
8. Regional trade agreements, employment and inclusiveness; Kee Kim Beom, Fan Zhai, Phu Huynh
9. Economic development with improved conditions of employment and reduced inequality: what choices does ASEAN have in the medium and long-term?; Francis Cripps, Naret Khurasee
10. Does Outsourcing Enhance Skill Premiums in ASEAN?; Aekapol Chongvilaivan
11. Regional integration and the creative economies of ASEAN: Assessing the potential for a single ASEAN creative economy ; Teemu Puutio
PART III. IMPACT OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION ON POVERTY, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL COHESION
12. Trade, Infrastructure and Regional Inequality: Lessons for ASEAN Economic Community; Prabir De, Ajitava Raychaudhuri
13. Social Cohesion, Economic Resilience and Long-term Growth in Southeast Asia and Developing countries; Marc Lautier
14. Reduction of absolute poverty, increase of relative poverty and growing inequalities: a threat to social cohesion; Bruno Jetin
15. Investment in infrastructure and regional integration: Will connectivity reduce inequalities?; Nathalie Fau
16. Within-country spatial inequality and local governance capacity: the case of Indonesia; Christine Cabasset

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This volume is an original work reflecting the importance and novelty of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) arrangements, as well as their implications for Asia-Pacific integration more broadly and for alternative regional cooperation proposals. While many books on ASEAN or Asian integration focus on a much narrower scope, the contributors here expound on a range of different views as they reflect the centrality of the AEC in the Asia-Pacific integration process by setting it in the broader context. The quality of the work is attested to by the high professional reputation of the contributors and their acknowledged expertise in the fields they represent. This book will attract economists and social scientists both from the Asia-Pacific region and from nonregional countries due to the diverse perspectives presented by contributors from various nationalities and the inherent lessons for other regions undergoing or considering economic integration.”(Douglas Brooks, The Australian APEC Study Center, RMIT University, Australia)

Editorial Reviews

“This edited book focuses on the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). … This book is an interesting read for policymakers, economists and anyone interested in ASEAN and the AEC. … the book is broadly based and renders a great summary of what regional integration in Southeast Asia has achieved and depicts a good picture of what may happen if a wider regional economic community within East Asia is built.” (Christoph Casimir Odermatt, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, Vol. 33, April, 2016)

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