Regional developments and economic outlook of ASEAN -- 2018 update on annual competitiveness analysis for ASEAN-10 -- Impact of exchange rates on trade in value-added of ASEAN economies -- Impact of the US-China trade war on ASEAN -- Concluding remarks and future research agenda.

The trade-investment-service-intellectual property (IP) nexus remains at the heart of economic development and the main features of which are global value chains (GVCs) and digitalisation. The protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) has become a critical issue not only for advanced...