ASEAN Economic Bulletin articles from December 2000

ASEAN Economic Bulletin archives from December 2000

Prospects in Trade, Investment and Business in Vietnam and East Asia.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Prospects in Trade, Investment and Business in Vietnam and East Asia. Edited by Tran Van Hoa. London and New York: MacMillan Press and St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. 248. Despite the title's reference to "East Asia", the volume's more...

Taiwan's Development Experience: Lessons on Roles of Government and Market.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Taiwan's Development Experience: Lessons on Roles of Government and Market. Edited by Erik Thorbecke and Henry Wan. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. Pp 454. As a general review of Taiwan's 50-year economic development experience,...

Competition and the World Economy: Comparing Industrial Development Policies in the Developing and Transitional Economies.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Competition and the World Economy: Comparing Industrial Development Policies in the Developing and Transitional Economies. By Francisco Sercovich et al. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1999. Pp. 450. This substantial book is a collaborative...

Technology, Competitiveness and the State: Malaysia's Industrial Technology Policies.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Technology, Competitiveness and the State: Malaysia's Industrial Technology Policies. Edited by Jomo K.S. and Greg Felker. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xii + 271. This book is one of two volumes analysing the determinants of technological...

The Economics of Transition in Laos: From Socialism to ASEAN Integration.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Economics of Transition in Laos: From Socialism to ASEAN Integration. By Yves Bourdet. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. 169. While books on Laos tend to be a rarity, books on the economy of Laos are even more thin on the ground. The...

The Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment to Growth and Stability.(Southeast Asia)(epo)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... A Post-Crisis ASEAN-5 Review I. Introduction The rapid growth enjoyed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was interrupted by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. To date, the ASEAN members are still grappling with the...

Multinational Firms and FDI in Southeast Asia.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Post-Crisis Changes in the Manufacturing Sector I. Introduction This article examines the effect the recent Asian economic crisis had on the perceptions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) with foreign direct investment (FDI)...

The Indonesian Economy.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Indonesian Economy. (2nd edition). By Hal Hill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 366. Hal Hill's latest work is a second edition of his original 1996 volume entitled The Indonesian Economy Since 1966: Southeast Asia's...

Aggregate Imports and Expenditure Components in Malaysia.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... A Cointegration and Error Correction Analysis I. Introduction Many empirical studies on the behaviour of aggregate Malaysian imports have been carried out (Mohammad 1980; Semudram 1982; Awang 1988; MIER 1990; Tang and Mohammad 2000)....

The Sources of Industrial Growth in Indonesia, 1985-95.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... An Input-Output Analysis I. Introduction Indonesia, as a developing country, has been formulating industrial development strategies since the late 1960s through five-year development plans (REPELITAs), which detail the goals and steps...

Intra-Southeast Asian Income Convergence.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... I. Introduction Southeast Asia comprises 10 states -- Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) serves as the primary...

NAFTA Trade with East Asia.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Rules of Origin and Market Access in Textiles, Apparel, Footwear and Electrical Machinery I. Introduction Rules of origin are among the most controversial aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Early assessments of...

Singapore and the Asian Economic Crisis.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... An Assessment of Policy Responses I. Introduction Singapore seems to have weathered the financial storm of East Asia better than most in the region. Yet it was not spared from contagion. Economic growth slowed from 7.8 per cent in 1997...