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

Editors: Bruno Jetin, Mia Mikic



The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community raises key issues: the deepening of regional trade and the associated problem of exchange rate management. This volume questions the capacity of a shallow institution to deal with complex impacts on employment and inequality. Contributors analyze ASEAN's potential and weakness in readable terms.

Table of contents (17 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction
• Introduction

ASEAN Economic Integration in the Context of East Asian Regionalism
• Front Matter
• ASEAN’s Imitation Economic Community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy
• By Chance or by Virtue? The Regional Economic Integration Process in Southeast Asia
• Trade Implications of the ASEAN+ Agreements for Other Asian Countries
• Southeast Asian Countries in Global Production Networks
• Impact of Monetary Regime and Exchange Rates on ASEAN Economic Integration
• Global Value Chains and Competitiveness of the Integrated Regions: Exchange Rate Issues
• Intra- and Extraregional Trade Costs of ASEAN Economies: Implications for Asian Regional Integration

Impact of Regional Integration on Structural Change, Employment, and Inequalities
• Front Matter
• Regional Trade Agreements, Employment, and Inclusiveness
• Economic Development with Improved Conditions of Employment and Reduced Inequality: What Choices Does ASEAN Have in the Medium and Long Term?
• Does Outsourcing Enhance Skill Premiums in ASEAN?
• Regional Integration and the Creative Economies of ASEAN: Assessing the Potential for a Single ASEAN Creative Economy

Impact of Regional Integration on Poverty, Inequalities, and Social Cohesion
• Front Matter
• Social Cohesion, Economic Resilience, and Long-Term Growth in Southeast Asia and Developing Countries
• Reduction of Absolute Poverty, Increase of Relative Poverty, and Growing Inequalities: A Threat to Social Cohesion
• Investment in Infrastructure and Regional Integration: Will Connectivity Reduce Inequalities?
• Within-Country Spatial Inequality and Local Governance Capacity: The Case of Indonesia

Conclusion
• Conclusion

Back Matter