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

✍ Scribed by Bruno Jetin, Mia Mikic (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
ASEAN’s Imitation Economic Community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy....Pages 11-31
By Chance or by Virtue? The Regional Economic Integration Process in Southeast Asia....Pages 33-57
Trade Implications of the ASEAN+ Agreements for Other Asian Countries....Pages 59-78
Southeast Asian Countries in Global Production Networks....Pages 79-100
Impact of Monetary Regime and Exchange Rates on ASEAN Economic Integration....Pages 101-125
Global Value Chains and Competitiveness of the Integrated Regions: Exchange Rate Issues....Pages 127-151
Intra- and Extraregional Trade Costs of ASEAN Economies: Implications for Asian Regional Integration....Pages 153-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Regional Trade Agreements, Employment, and Inclusiveness....Pages 175-195
Economic Development with Improved Conditions of Employment and Reduced Inequality: What Choices Does ASEAN Have in the Medium and Long Term?....Pages 197-216
Does Outsourcing Enhance Skill Premiums in ASEAN?....Pages 217-229
Regional Integration and the Creative Economies of ASEAN: Assessing the Potential for a Single ASEAN Creative Economy....Pages 231-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Social Cohesion, Economic Resilience, and Long-Term Growth in Southeast Asia and Developing Countries....Pages 243-265
Reduction of Absolute Poverty, Increase of Relative Poverty, and Growing Inequalities: A Threat to Social Cohesion....Pages 267-289
Investment in Infrastructure and Regional Integration: Will Connectivity Reduce Inequalities?....Pages 291-310
Within-Country Spatial Inequality and Local Governance Capacity: The Case of Indonesia....Pages 311-328
Conclusion....Pages 329-338
Back Matter....Pages 339-350

✦ Subjects

Organization; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Finance, general; International Economics; Development Economics; International Relations