The Political Economy of Manufacturing Protection: Experiences of ASEAN and Australia
by Christopher Findlay (Editor), Ross Garnaut (Editor)

About the author
Christopher Findlay took up the position of Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions at the University of Adelaide in June 2011. Professor Findlay is also currently vice-chair of the Australian Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (AUSPECC). Previously he was professor of economics and head of school at the University of Adelaide. Professor Findlay has a PhD and MEc from the ANU and an honours degree in economics from the University of Adelaide. He became a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2002 and a member of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2007. Australia’s economic relations with Asia is the theme of his research.
Ross Garnaut is a professorial fellow in the faculty of economics and commerce, a vice chancellor's fellow at the University of Melbourne, a distinguished professor of the Australian National University, and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia. He presented the Garnaut Climate Change Review to the Australian Prime Minister in September 2008.

About this book
Protection is a persistent feature of economic policy in developed and developing countries alike. However, it is now widely accepted that high protection holds back economic growth. Why is protection so pervasive when it is widely recognised to be against the national interest of the countries which impose it? This contradiction is the focus of this important volume, first published in 1986. Experts in economics from the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia have written about their countries and draw conclusions on the causes of protection from statistical analysis and from interindustry structure.

Table of contents
1. Indonesia: The Structure and Causes of Manufacturing Sector Protection
2. The Philippines: The Structure and Causes of Manufacturing Sector Protection
3. Thailand: Manufacturing Industry Protection Issues and Empirical Studies
4. Malaysia: The Structure and Causes of Manufacturing Sector Protection
5. Singapore: The Structure and Causes of Manufacturing Sector Protection
6. Austalia: Political Economy of Manufacturing Protection
7. ASEAN and Australia: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Manufacturing Sector Protection
8. Import Quotas and Voluntary Export Restraints: Exporting Countries
9. ASEAN Systems for Allocation of Export Licenses Under VERs
10. Australian Protection and the ASEAN Countries
11. Conclusions and Suggestions for Policy Action

Series: Routledge Library Editions: International Trade Policy (Book 19)
Length: 326 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1138297712
ISBN-13: 978-1138297715