Much of the existing investment climate literature promotes a rule-based 'good governance' approach, in which less advanced economies are advised to adopt orthodox, OECD-type practices in order to facilitate higher investment and growth. Although credible property rights, efficient bureaucracies...

We explore the ups and downs of trade protectionism in Indonesia since the Asian financial crisis of 1997--98. The key constraints to unilateral trade reform include exchange rate factors, the political economy of consumer--producer behaviour, institutional complexity and global pressures. We...

This volume is a tribute to Professor Hal Hill, one of the most distinguished and internationally renowned Australian development economists and the single most important Australian figure in the networks that bind the Australian and Southeast Asian economics professions over the past four...