ASEAN and FTAA: External Threats and Internal Institutional Weaknesses
ASEAN countries perceive the possible formation of the FTAA as a potential threat on the grounds that it may divert export markets and foreign direct investment (FDI) capital to the FTAA region. This effect, together with the China factor and the hangover from the 1997 financial crisis, posts a concern to the ASEAN countries economic growth. We show that, with Singapore as an exception, ASEAN countries are afflicted with state activism, poor property rights protection, and under-developed corporate governance. We argue that a poor institutional environment may exacerbate the effects of an external shock such as that of FTAA and thus we need to explicitly incorporate the role of institutional environments in our analysis. We further argue that while FDI flows to locations with market opportunities, a locations institutional environment affects the composition of FDI. Due to ASEAN countries institutional weakness, its substantial inward FDI has mainly substituted, rather than complemented, local entrepreneurship. As FTAA may divert FDI flows into ASEAN countries, their appropriate response is to improve institutional quality so that the share of the more productive complementary FDI will increase in the total FDI inflows.
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2004
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Authors: | Yasheng, Huang ; K, Morck Randall ; Bernard, Yeung |
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Business and Politics. - De Gruyter, ISSN 1469-3569. - Vol. 6.2004, 1, p. 1-45
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De Gruyter |
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