This edited volume analyzes the role of ASEAN within a rapidly changing Pacific and global economic environment. The contributors examine the external economic relations of Southeast Asian nations, the development of regional industries, and the broader impact of international economic trends on ASEAN member states. The book discusses shifts in global trade patterns, resource-based industries, …
ASEAN economic cooperation and integration have come a long way since the organisation's early days, when cooperation was more political and diplomatic than economic in nature. ASEAN now constitutes the most ambitious organization of regional cooperation in the developing world. This book investigates the economics of various ASEAN and ASEAN-centric economic integration initiatives, focusing in…
The volume consists of two parts. Part 1 discusses economic friction in the Asia-Pacific region from three aspects: macroeconomic and microeconomic friction, and that between the state and the market mechanism. Included in the discussion are the recent financial crisis and the economic friction it entailed, the trend of regional integration and its impact on internal and external trade and fore…
This volume represents a first dialogue between European and Asian Economists concerning the common outlook of the two continents following the financial crisis which struck Asia in 1997. The papers in this volume were presented at the ASEF/CEPII conference in Paris, May 1998 which brought together Asian and European Economists and economic practitioners for an open and critical appraisal of th…