Recently added articles from ASEAN Economic Bulletin:
Avoiding the middle-income trap: renovating industrial policy formulation in Vietnam.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I. Entering a New Era The Vietnamese economy has grown rapidly with the average growth rate of 7.6 per cent in 1991--2008. In 1990, Vietnam was among the world's poorest countries with GDP per capita of US$98 (ADB data). By 2008, with the GDP per capita of US$1,024, Vietnam has ...
Banking and financial sector reforms in Vietnam.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I. Introduction Vietnam has made significant progress in socioeconomic development since Doi Moi some twenty years ago, and is well on the way to become a middle-income country. This was achieved essentially through two phases of economic reforms: Doi Moi 1 (1986-1996), and Doi ...
Trade policy and the structure of incentives in Thai agriculture.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction and Summary Thailand is a major net agricultural exporter and its agricultural trade policy is dominated by this fact. The list of agricultural exports includes many of the most important agricultural products produced and consumed within the country, including ...
Thai household's rice consumption and its demand elasticity.
Dec 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Economic growth and urbanization have inevitably affected household food consumption patterns, particularly for rice, which is a staple food in almost all Asian countries. Indonesia's per capita rice consumption in both urban and rural areas has been decreasing ...
An empirical study of food demand in Vietnam.
Dec 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Food consumption has been a subject of research all over the world. It is especially meaningful in developing countries where food expenditures account for a relatively large share of household income. Studies of food consumption shed light on food-related ...
Regional development dynamics and decentralization in the Philippines: ten lessons from a "fast starter".
Dec 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction For several reasons--analytics, policy, deeply entrenched spatial inequality, transitions from economic crises or command economies, and the uneven effects of rapid global integration-spatial disparities and centre-region relations are the focus of much attention ...
The economy-wide impact of integrated pest management in Indonesia.
Dec 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction To overcome the chronic food shortage during the first two decades of its independence (1945-65), the Indonesian Government established a comprehensive rice intensification programme; particularly large-scale adoption of high-yielding modern seed varieties, ...
The EU and ASEAN: learning from the failed EU-Mercosur FTA negotiations.(RESEARCH NOTE)
Dec 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction On 4 May 2007, at a meeting held in Brunei Darussalam, ASEAN and the EU agreed to launch negotiations for a Free Trade Area (FTA) (ASEAN Economic Ministers and the European Union Trade Commissioner 2007). If the negotiations are successful, the FTA agreement will ...
East Asian Visions: Perspectives on Economic Development.
Dec 01, 2008; ... East Asian Visions: Perspectives on Economic Development. Edited by Indermit Gill et al. Washington, D.C. and Singapore: World Bank and Institute of Policy Studies, 2007. Pp. 358. The volume contains eighteen policy studies authored by twenty senior policy-makers, statespersons ...
Vientiane: Transformations of a Lao Landscape.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Vientiane: Transformations of a Lao Landscape. By Mark Askew, William S. Logan and Colin Long. London: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 265. Askew, Logan and Long have undertaken one of the most important works on Lao history in many decades. This book is an attempt to look at Laos through ...
Arndt's Story: The Life of an Australian Economist.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Arndt's Story: The Life of an Australian Economist. By Peter Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Peter Drake. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, Australian National University. 2007. Pp. 338. Professor Heinz Wolfgang Arndt, who passed away on 6 May 2002, was a towering figure in the ...
Multinational Corporations in Indonesia and Thailand: Wages, Productivity, and Exports.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Multinational Corporations in Indonesia and Thailand: Wages, Productivity, and Exports, edited by Eric D. Ramstetter and Fredrik Sjoholm. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 229. This book analyses factory-level data from Indonesia and Thailand to gain insights into the ...
Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam. By Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan and World Bank, 2008. Pp. 220. In the 1980s, Vietnam embarked on the transition from a socialist command economy towards a market-oriented ...
EAFTA or CEPEA: which way forward?(East Asia Free Trade Agreements )(Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia )(Report)
Aug 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction East Asian economies have grown rapidly over the last four decades, driven by the expansion of international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). They have also moved toward formal economic integration through bilateral and plurilateral free trade ...
The triad in Southeast Asia: What determines U.S., EU and Japanese FDI within AFTA?(foreign direct investment)(ASEAN Free Trade Areas)(Report)
Aug 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Though foreign direct investment (FDI) has been mainly a phenomenon among the advanced OECD economies, the so-called newly industrialized economies (NIEs) of Southeast Asia (for example, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia) have effectively integrated into ...
The structure of protection in Indonesian manufacturing sector.(Report)
Aug 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Trade and industrialization have been the engines of economic growth for East Asian expansion. Following the "flying geese" (FG) formation (1) (Akamatsu 1961, 1962), Japan had high economic growth based on exports in the 1960s and it was followed by the newly ...
International trade and regional income convergence: the ASEAN-5 evidence.(Report)
Aug 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction This paper proposes the hypothesis that multilateralism (non-discriminatory) and regionalism (regional trade agreements, or RTAs) are complementary and that regional income convergence is likely to occur with like-minded and committed RTAs that often have links ...
The influence of ownership structure on the corporate performance of Malaysian public listed companies.(Report)
Aug 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction Shareholders have been grappling with the issue of corporate governance and transparency in the companies they have invested in for many years. Both factors are of great importance to shareholders as Bacon Report (1992) has shown that they are the catalysts for ...
The role of ASEAN Economic Community as a commitment to policy certainty.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Report)
Aug 01, 2008; ... I. Introduction and Summary In January 2007 at the Cebu Summit, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) committed to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015, five years earlier than envisaged. This stems from a consensus that there is a need to fashion ...
Cambodia's persistent dollarization: causes and policy options.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Report)
Aug 01, 2008; ... For a long time it seemed that the extent of ... dollarization was impervious to improved economic performance. Now however we have several examples of countries that have dedollarized successfully ..., including Israel, Poland, Mexico, Egypt, and Turkey. And some signs of declining ...