The ASEAN members Cambodia, Lao DPR, and Myanmar have been classified by the United Nations as least developed countries, with many of their citizens living below the poverty line, and its workers predominantly rural. This paper seeks to ascertain how these 3 countries can benefit from the 4th...

Has the revival of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the early 1990s affected the industrial growth of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines? Perhaps not in the early years of the revival, primarily because of the countries' long history of intra-regional trade. Has the...

"Before the arrival of the 21st century, Taiwan was widely regarded as a successful model of a country which had not only transformed herself from an under-developed economy into a high-tech industrialised island, but also undergone a revolution from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one....