Launched as a political bloc and security pact in the aftermath of the Viet Nam War, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has evolved to embrace an ambitious economic agenda. Its latest project is to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 31 December 2015. Fulfilling these...

Launched as a political bloc and security pact in the aftermath of the Viet Nam War, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has evolved to embrace an ambitious economic agenda. It latest project is to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 31 December 2015. Fulfilling these...

There is a general class of model used to examine the expenditure and tax strategies adopted towards mobile factors by states that are members of regional unions (eg., federations, confederations or common markets). We develop a variant of this model, extended to allow for imperfect factor...

The formation of regional production networks (RPNs) is one of the most important drivers of growth in East and Southeast Asia. In view of slowdown in growth and even recession in advanced economies as a result of the adverse impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 and the ongoing European...

We consider the relative effects of globalisation and regionalism in the context of recent developments in the world economy. We extent and advance the analysis of Chortareas and Pelagidis (2004) using the recently updated Penn World Tables data. This allows considering the recent ‘golden era'...

Most of the less developed countries consider regional integrations as a tool for achieving higher economic growth rates and economic development. Positive dynamic effects are what countries expect to occur in the long run within a regional integration. Since there is a trend of deepening...

The objective of this article is to explore the economic relationship between China and the surrounding dynamic Asian economies. It delves into China's influence over the Asian economies and whether this relationship is a market-led or de facto symbiosis. The three principal channels of regional...

The formation of regional production networks (RPNs) is one of the most important drivers of growth in East and Southeast Asia. In view of slowdown in growth and even recession in advanced economies as a result of the adverse impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 and the ongoing European...

Globally, healthcare is a key sector for the overall well-being of a country and its population. By 2030, at least 60 percent of the global population will be living in Asia, and one in four will be over 60 years of age. As the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of the sector, it also...

Economic integrations among developing countries are different from the ones among more developed countries because of its aims, namely fostering economic development, industrialization and decreasing poverty. In fact, for developing countries regional integration can represent an opportunity...