Recently added articles from ASEAN Economic Bulletin:
The environment, climate change and natural resources in Southeast Asia: issues and challenges.
Apr 01, 2008; ... The environment, climate change and the management of natural resources have been taking centre stage with policy-makers and governments in Southeast Asia. It is now recognized that environmental degradation cannot continue unabated over the long term. It is already affecting countries, ...
Adaptation to climate change: needs and opportunities in Southeast Asia.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction The impacts of climate change, which include the increasing frequency and intensity of droughts and storms, and rising sea level, are already being felt in Asia and the rest of the world. Whether induced by climate change or other factors, hydrometeorological ...
Tariff reductions, carbon emissions, and poverty: an economy-wide assessment of the Philippines.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Two issues feature prominently in international negotiations--the fight against climate change, and the liberalization of trade. For countries in the developing world, the impact these issues will have on poverty is critical. Can global warming be tackled and ...
Mitigating distributional impact of fuel pricing reform: the Indonesian experience.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction It has been suggested (1) that global fuel subsidies could amount to between US$250 and US$300 billion a year--enough to comfortably pay off sub-Saharan Africa's entire debt burden and still leaves billions of dollars to spare. These subsidies create a distortion ...
Payments for environmental services in Vietnam: an empirical experiment in sustainable forest management.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction The majority of the poor in Vietnam Five in the country's hilly and mountainous areas. Many upland farmers provide significant environmental services that benefit the wider community. They do this through the environmentally friendly ways in which they implement ...
Mobilizing resources for marine turtle conservation in Asia: a cross-country perspective.(Report)(Survey)
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Marine turtles are important, not only for their economic and intrinsic value, but because the presence of an adequate population of marine turtles is often an indicator of healthy marine ecosystem (Perrine 2003). Of the seven species of marine ...
Ecological solid waste management in suburban municipalities: user fees in Tuba, Philippines.
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Improper solid waste disposal is probably the most important environmental concern facing local governments (Laplante 2003). This is particularly true in the Philippines (World Bank 2001). in response to a garbage crisis, the first bill that Philippine President ...
The impacts of coal mining on the economy and environment of South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. Coal in Indonesia and Its Environmental Impacts Coal is one of the world's most plentiful energy resources and its use is likely to quadruple by 2020. The world coal trade grew steadily from 386.90 million tons in 1990 to 468.20 million tons in 1995, and to an estimated ...
Costs and benefits of flue gas desulfurization for pollution control at the Mae Moh power plant, Thailand.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Southeast Asia has experienced a massive increase in electricity consumption over the last decade. This trend looks set to continue as industry develops and the region's population rises. Although renewable sources of energy production such as wind and solar can ...
Determinants of parallel exchange rate in Myanmar.(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction Myanmar practices dual or multiple foreign exchange system. The official rate has been pegged to the special drawing right (SDR) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and it has not been devalued for more than two decades, shifting around 6 kyat per U.S ....
Trade structure and trade flows in Cambodia: a gravity model.
Dec 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction Cambodia's entry into the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 1999 offers substantial potential for its integration with international economies. Since international trade has been acknowledged as being important for developed economies as well as developing ...
The narrow money demand behaviour in Indonesia, 1970-2005.(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction Since the currency crisis during 1997-99 Indonesia has introduced a wide range of institutional reforms and redirected monetary policy towards maintaining price and exchange rate stability (Alamsyah et al. 2001; Bank Indonesia 2005; Goeltom 2005). During ...
Go with the gang, ASEAN!(Association of Southeast Asian Nations)(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction Despite the progress in tariff reductions initiated by the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the past twenty years, there still exist a number of trade barriers and other problems needed to be addressed. Besides, there are conflicts among WTO country members in ...
An empirical examination of East Asia's pre-crisis pegged exchange rates.(Author abstract)(Report)
Dec 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction According to conventional wisdom, the rigidity of pre-1997 pegged exchange rate regimes in East Asia was one of the main causes of the currency crisis. (1) The basis for assuming that East Asia's pre-crisis exchange rates were rigid is the declarations of central ...
Islamic Banking and Finance in South-East Asia: Its Development and Future.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Islamic Banking and Finance in South-East Asia: Its Development and Future. By Angelo M. Venardos. Singapore: World Scientific Press, 2006. Pp. 238. Spanning more than seventy-five countries and charting an estimated average annual growth of 15 to 20 per cent, Islamic finance ...
Managing Globalization: Lessons from China and India.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Managing Globalization: Lessons from China and India. Edited by David A. Kelly, Ramkishen S. Rajah, and Gillian H. L. Goh. Singapore: World Scientific, 2006. Pp. 481. China and India, two fastest-growing and most populous nations in the world, have been attracting greater ...
The Inclusive City: Infrastructure and Public Services for the Urban Poor in Asia.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... The Inclusive City: Infrastructure and Public Services for the Urban Poor in Asia. Edited by Aprodicio A. Laquian, Vinod Tewari, and Lisa M. Hanley. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; and Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. 341. The ...
Challenges to the Global Trading System: Adjustment to Globalization in the Asia-Pacific Region.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Challenges to the Global Trading System: Adjustment to Globalization in the Asia-Pacific Region. Edited by Peter A. Petri and Sumner J. La Croix. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 234. The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) Conference series since 1968 is rightly ...
Malaysia: From Kampung to Twin Towers.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Malaysia: From Kampung to Twin Towers. By Richard Leete. Shah Alam: Oxford Fajar, 2007. Pp. 358. The publication of Malaysia: From Kampung to Twin Towers coincides with the celebrations of fifty years of Independence in Malaysia. It documents the economic and social progress ...
Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Peter Sercombe and Bernard Sellato. Denmark: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2007. Pp. 384. Recent research on the Penan, Punan, and other indigenous communities (Dayak) have been sporadic ...