ASEAN Economic Bulletin articles from December 2008

ASEAN Economic Bulletin archives from December 2008

Trade policy and the structure of incentives in Thai agriculture.(Report)
December 1, 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...

Thai household's rice consumption and its demand elasticity.
December 1, 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...

An empirical study of food demand in Vietnam.
December 1, 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...

Regional development dynamics and decentralization in the Philippines: ten lessons from a "fast starter".
December 1, 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...

The economy-wide impact of integrated pest management in Indonesia.
December 1, 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...

The EU and ASEAN: learning from the failed EU-Mercosur FTA negotiations.(RESEARCH NOTE)
December 1, 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...

East Asian Visions: Perspectives on Economic Development.
December 1, 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...

Vientiane: Transformations of a Lao Landscape.
December 1, 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...

Arndt's Story: The Life of an Australian Economist.
December 1, 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...

Multinational Corporations in Indonesia and Thailand: Wages, Productivity, and Exports.
December 1, 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...

Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam.
December 1, 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...