Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics
About the Book Series
ERIA was established in 2008 with the objective of contributing intellectually to economic development of the East Asia region with a special focus on the ASEAN. ERIA’s current research is centered around three broad themes, deepening integration, narrowing development gaps, and sustainable development. The book series promotes policy discussions and deepens understanding of the economic issues in East Asia, the world fastest growing region.
Some titles in this series have been made Open Access.
Developing the Digital Economy in ASEAN
1st Edition
Edited
By Lurong Chen, Fukunari Kimura
June 30, 2021
This book advances the international debate on the development of e-commerce with focus on emerging ASEAN economies. It provides readers insights on Asia’s needs and efforts to improve the regional legal and economic conditions to support e-commerce. This book looks at the rules and ...
East Asian Integration: Goods, Services and Investment
1st Edition
Edited
By Lili Yan Ing, Martin Richardson, Shujiro Urata
June 30, 2021
The growth of world trade has been stagnant in recent times; trade liberalisation now has been challenged. The recent rise of anti-globalisation calls for a better integration in East Asia. How should East Asia manage its openness? This book provides profound analyses on rules of origins, ...
Emerging Global Trade Governance: Mega Free Trade Agreements and Implications for ASEAN
1st Edition
Edited
By Lurong Chen, Shujiro Urata, Junji Nakagawa, Masahito Ambashi
December 18, 2020
Mega free trade agreements (FTAs) are being formed to fill the gap created by new developments in global governance and are reshaping the world economic order. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is one of such 21st century FTAs. This book highlights three trade-related issues covered by...
Social Protection Goals in East Asia: Strategies and Methods to Generate Fiscal Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Mukul G. Asher, Fauziah Zen, Astrid Dita
December 18, 2020
The book examines the conceptual, economic, and fiscal impact(s) of the Social Protection Floor (SPF) initiative of the International Labor Organisation (ILO) and other policy influencers by first critically examining the methodologies used by the international agencies to estimate the fiscal costs...
World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment
1st Edition
Edited
By Lili Yan Ing, Miaojie Yu
December 18, 2020
The book provides theoretical and empirical evidence on how world trade evolves, how trade affects resource allocation, how trade competition affects productivity, how China shock affects world trade and how trade affects large and small countries. It is a useful reference which focuses on new ...
Production Networks in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Lili Yan Ing, Fukunari Kimura
June 04, 2019
This book answers the recently topical questions of how China’s processed trade affects the trade of Southeast Asia. What is Southeast Asia’s role in Factory Asia, the region’s complex of cross-border supply chains? What is Southeast Asia’s involvement in building or joining production networks in ...
The Indonesian Economy: Trade and Industrial Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Lili Yan Ing, Gordon H. Hanson, Sri Mulyani Indrawati
June 04, 2019
Against the backdrop of growing anti-globalisation sentiments and increasing fragmentation of the production process across countries, this book addresses how the Indonesian economy should respond and how Indonesia should shape its trade and industrial policies in this new world trade environment. ...
Age Related Pension Expenditure and Fiscal Space: Modelling techniques and case studies from East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Mukul G. Asher, Fauziah Zen
June 28, 2018
This book explores the linkages between age-related pension expenditures and the fiscal space needed to fund them, as well as to organize the mix of financing methods with different risk-sharing arrangements. After critically assessing the existing models projecting age-related expenditure in the ...
Energy Market Integration in East Asia: Deepening Understanding and Moving Forward
1st Edition
Edited
By Yanrui Wu, Fukunari Kimura, Xunpeng Shi
June 28, 2018
East Asian nations through the dialogue between ASEAN and its partners have been promoting energy market integration (EMI) for a decade. The formation of the East Asian Summit (EAS) group in 2005 adds new momentum to the EMI course in the region. The objective of this edited volume is to present ...
Strengthening Social Protection in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Mukul G. Asher, Fukunari Kimura
June 28, 2018
This book focuses on relatively unexplored areas in pension and health care arrangements, including financing, in East Asia. The book aims to fill the literature gap on social protection in East Asia by covering issues such as pension and health care arrangements in the depopulating high income ...
ASEAN and Regional Free Trade Agreements
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Findlay
April 13, 2017
Efforts to use existing trade agreements to build a larger regional agreement face many challenges. This book considers this problem with reference to ASEAN’s current agreements with key partners and the interest to build the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The analysis of the ...
Economic Integration in East Asia: Production networks and small and medium enterprises
1st Edition
By Charles Harvie, Dionisius Narjoko, Sothea Oum
April 13, 2017
International production networks in manufacturing, particularly in machinery industries, have rapidly developed over the last two decades, resulting in dramatic increases in intra-regional and intra-industry trade, providing a key source of regional growth, integration and development in East Asia...