ASEAN Economic Bulletin

This article analyses the issue of differences in the measurement of international trade flows at a bilateral level in the context of Singapore. Using the Trade Difference (TD) Statistic a la Blades and Ivanov (1985), discrepancies in reported international...

I am deeply grateful to the ASEAN Business Forum for inviting me to join you at this luncheon on the occasion of the meeting of ABF's Board of Governors. I thank in particular Mrs. Jannie Tay, your president-our president, as I am proud to serve as honorary...

Using data gathered directly from Japanese, European and U.S. firms with investments throughout ASEAN, this article shows that multinational firms uniformly anticipated Asian crisis-induced reforms that would beneficially affect overall investment environments....

Presentation of H. E. Rodolfo C. Severino, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at the 1st Symposium on ASEAN-Andean Cooperation in the New Millennium Bangkok, 8 May 2000 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the...

A Siamese Tragedy. By Walden Bello, Shea Cunningham and Li Kheng Poh. London: Zed Books, 1998. 256 pp. Sub-titled "Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand", A Siamese Tragedy depicts various disappointments and adverse side-effects in Thailand's...

There are, at this time, few things more urgent or more important for ASEAN - or for any nation or region - than building "knowledge societies." ASEAN's leaders have recognized this. In the plan of action that they adopted in Hanoi in December 1998,...

The article analyses the interactions between stock prices and exchange rates in Malaysia, using bivariate as well as multivariate cointegration, and the Granger causality test. In the analysis, three exchange rate measures are used: the real effective...

Statement of Mr. Rodolfo C. Severino, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at the Greater Mekong Sub-region Business Workshops Bangkok, 10 February 2000 Efforts to develop the Mekong Sub-region far antedate ASEAN. The...

Some Evidence from the Singapore-Johor Agglomeration I. Introduction During recent decades there has been a renewed interest in understanding innovation and learning in regional agglomerations. Learning has become one of the most popular concepts...

I. Introduction A well-known area of debate in economics literature has been the precise relationship between money and income. This article addresses and tests for any empirical relationship between money and income in Singapore. Other things being...

Indonesia, like many other countries in Southeast Asia, has actively promoted the automotive industry. The governmental interventions have ranged from tariffs and non-tariff barriers to various local content programmes. As a result, imports of ready...

Singapore: Towards a Developed Status. Edited by Linda Low. Singapore: Centre for Advanced Studies, National University of Singapore and Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 401. Singapore: Towards a Developed Status is an ambitious book. It focuses on...