Table Of ContentASEAN Economic Community
ASEAN Economic Community
A Model for Asia-wide Regional Integration?
Edited by Bruno J etin and M ia M ikic
ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
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ASEAN Economic Community (Jetin and Mikic)
ASEAN Economic Community : a model for Asia-wide regional
integration? / edited by Bruno Jetin and Mia Mikic.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. ASEAN Economic Community. 2. Southeast Asia—Economic
integration. 3. Southeast Asia—Commerce. I. Jetin, Bruno, editor.
II. Mikic, Mia, editor. III. Jones, Lee, 1981– ASEAN's imitation
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Contents
List of Figures v ii
List of Tables i x
Introduction 1
Bruno Jetin and Mia Mikic
Part I ASEAN Economic Integration in the Context
of East Asian Regionalism
1 ASEAN’s Imitation Economic Community: The Primacy
of Domestic Political Economy 1 1
David Martin Jones
2 By Chance or by Virtue? The Regional Economic Integration
Process in Southeast Asia 3 3
Jean-Rapha ë l Chaponni è re and Marc Lautier
3 Trade Implications of the ASEAN+ Agreements for
Other Asian Countries 59
Mia Mikic
4 Southeast Asian Countries in Global Production Networks 79
Prema-chandra Athukorala
5 Impact of Monetary Regime and Exchange Rates
on ASEAN Economic Integration 1 01
Nabil Afl ouk, Jacques Mazier, and Myoung Keun On
6 Global Value Chains and Competitiveness of the
Integrated Regions: Exchange Rate Issues 127
Witada Anukoonwattaka
7 Intra- and Extraregional Trade Costs of ASEAN Economies:
Implications for Asian Regional Integration 1 53
Yann Duval and Emilie Feyler
vi Contents
Part II Impact of Regional Integration on Structural Change,
Employment, and Inequalities
8 Regional Trade Agreements, Employment, and Inclusiveness 175
Kee Beom Kim, Fan Zhai, and Phu Huynh
9 Economic Development with Improved Conditions of
Employment and Reduced Inequality: What Choices
Does ASEAN Have in the Medium and Long Term? 197
Francis Cripps and Naret Khurasee
10 D oes Outsourcing Enhance Skill Premiums in ASEAN? 217
Aekapol Chongvilaivan
11 R egional Integration and the Creative Economies of ASEAN:
Assessing the Potential for a Single ASEAN Creative Economy 231
Teemu Alexander Puutio
Part III Impact of Regional Integration on Poverty,
Inequalities, and Social Cohesion
12 S ocial Cohesion, Economic Resilience, and Long-Term Growth in
Southeast Asia and Developing Countries 243
Marc Lautier
13 R eduction of Absolute Poverty, Increase of Relative Poverty,
and Growing Inequalities: A Threat to Social Cohesion 267
Bruno Jetin
14 I nvestment in Infrastructure and Regional Integration:
Will Connectivity Reduce Inequalities? 291
Nathalie Fau
15 W ithin-Country Spatial Inequality and Local Governance
Capacity: The Case of Indonesia 311
Christine Cabasset
Conclusion 3 29
Mia Mikic and Bruno Jetin
List of Contributors 3 39
Index 3 45
Figures
2.1 Intraregional trade as percent of total trade 3 4
2.2 Europe-Asia and Intra-Asia trade before World War II
as a percent of world trade 35
2.3 FDI inflows in ASEAN and China from 1980 to 2013
in US$ billion 39
2.4 Tariffs on CEPT product 4 0
2.5 Frequency of NTB by country 42
2.6 Average tariff rate (manufactured products), intra- and
extra-ASEAN imports 4 3
2.7 Intra-ASEAN and ASEAN-world manufactured
export growth rate 43
2.8 Intra-ASEAN trade as a percent of ASEAN trade 4 9
3.1 Cumulative number of preferential trade agreements 6 4
3.2 Share of exports and imports with FTA partners
in countries’ total trade 6 5
3.3 Existing and planned FTAs among RCEP negotiating parties 7 2
5.1 Actual and equilibrium real effective and bilateral
exchange rates of ASEAN+3 104
5.2 Loss of competitiveness of East Asia 1 against East Asia 2,
East Asia 1 GDP 119
5.3 Loss of competitiveness of East Asia 1 against East Asia 2,
EA1 currency/Rest of the World exchange rate E4 1 20
5 .4 Loss of competitiveness of East Asia 1 against East Asia 2.
Impact on the share of intra-ASEAN trade in the total
trade of country EA1, in difference with the base line 1 21
5.5 Loss of competitiveness of ASEAN countries against China 1 22
5.6 Loss of competitiveness of ASEAN countries against China,
EA1 currency/Rest of the World exchange rate E4 1 22
5.7 Loss of competitiveness of East Asia against China. Impact
on the share of intra-ASEAN trade in the total trade
of country EA1, in difference with the base line 1 23
6.1 Exports of IPN-associated intermediate goods from Asia
and the Pacific to the world, 1992–2011 1 30
7.1 C ontribution of export, import, and liner shipping connectivity
performance to international supply chain connectivity in 2014 1 62
viii Figures
7.2 Ease of doing business: 2015 ranking 1 64
7.3 Information and communication technology
usage in ASEAN 165
8.1 Ratio of labor productivity by subsector to
that of agriculture, 2012 1 78
8.2 Change in GDP relative to the baseline, 2015,
2020, and 2025 180
8.3 Change in consumption, investment, exports,
and imports relative to the baseline, 2025 1 81
10.1 A fitted plot of international outsourcing of materials
input and labor productivity in Singapore
manufacturing industries, 1995–2004 2 22
10.2 A fitted plot of international outsourcing of services
input and labor productivity in Singapore
manufacturing industries, 1995–2004 2 23
12.1 Economic resilience map 2 48
12.2 Resilience profiles in Asia 2 51
12.3 Resilience profiles in Africa 2 51
12.4 Relationship between the contribution of growth losses
to the growth gap and the indicator SC & SE 2 59
12.5 Relationship between growth losses and
the indicator SC & SE 2 59
12.6 Relationship between growth speed difference
and the indicator SC & SE 2 60
13.1 Convergence of living standards in the
Asia Pacific, 1970–2011 270
13.2 Between-country inequality of total ASEAN
and ASEAN founder countries, 1960–2011 2 71
13.3 Contribution to the Theil Index of ASEAN
real GDP, 1970–2011 271
13.4 Convergence of low and middle-income
ASEAN countries toward Thailand 2 72
13.5 Absolute and relative poverty in Southeast
Asia around 2009–2012 2 78
13.6 Objective poverty and dissatisfaction in ASEAN 2 79
13.7 Interpersonal trust: Can you rely on friends and
family for help?, average 2011–2012 2 81
13.8 Societal trust: Do you think that most people
can be trusted?, average 2011–2012 2 81
13.9 Participation: Have you volunteered your time in
past month?, average 2011–2012 2 82
13.10 Can people get ahead by working hard?, 2011–2012 2 83
Tables
2.1 ASEAN economies in 2015 36
2.2 Tariffs and customs revenue in ASEAN countries 4 0
2.3 Distribution of tariff lines by program in 2010 4 1
2.4 European aid to ASEAN in million US$ 46
2.5 GL indicators in ASEAN 5 0
2.6 Degree of exports complementarities for total exports 5 1
3.1 Possible areas of negotiations under RCEP 6 8
3.2 Economic size of mega-regionals 7 4
4.1 Average annual compensation per production worker 8 3
4.2 Source-country composition of world manufacturing
exports, 1992–2003 and 2011–2012 85
4.3 Share of network products in manufacturing trade,
1992–1993 and 2011–2012 87
4.4 Composition of networks exports, 2011–2012 8 8
4.5 Share of parts and components in bilateral
trade flows, 2011–2012 92
4.6 Intraregional shares of manufacturing trade: Total, parts and
components, and final trade, 1992–1993 and 2011–2012 9 3
5.1 Alternative closures of each exchange rate regime 1 16
6.1 Shares of the Asia-Pacific region in global exports
of customized intermediate and final products
by subregion and selected economies, 2011 1 31
6.2 Partners in Asia-Pacific intermediate goods trading 1 32
6.3 Sources of IPN-associated intermediate imports
by select industries in China, 2011 1 33
6.4 Fixed-effects estimations of exchange rate effects
on intermediate electronics imports by China
from selected Asian countries, 1992–2011 1 41
6.5 Fixed-effects estimations of exchange rate effects
on intermediate apparel/footwear imports by
China from selected Asian countries, 1992–2011 1 42
6.6 Fixed-effects estimations of exchange rate effects
on intermediate automotive component imports
by China from selected Asian countries, 1992–2011 1 43
