Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
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-Rapha l Chaponni re, 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