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.
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By Lurong Chen, Fukunari Kimura
May 02, 2019
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 ...
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By Lili Yan Ing, Gordon H. Hanson, Sri Mulyani Indrawati
September 01, 2017
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. ...
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By Lili Yan Ing, Fukunari Kimura
February 16, 2017
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 ...
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By Mukul G. Asher, Fauziah Zen
March 07, 2016
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 ...
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By Christopher Findlay
May 21, 2015
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 ...
By Charles Harvie, Dionisius Narjoko, Sothea Oum
May 21, 2015
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...
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By Mukul G. Asher, Fukunari Kimura
April 21, 2015
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 ...
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By Jenny Corbett, Ying Xu
November 26, 2014
Since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997–98 large current account surpluses have accumulated in the countries of Asia and the Pacific with corresponding deficits elsewhere. The sharp plunge in global trade volumes during the global financial crisis has highlighted the need for ‘rebalancing’–...
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By Yanrui Wu, Fukunari Kimura, Xunpeng Shi
December 04, 2013
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 ...
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By Shujiro Urata, Chin Hee Hahn, Dionisius Narjoko
April 05, 2012
Economists have long recognized the gains from international trade. The question is, does international trade – or more broadly, globalization – increase growth? Notwithstanding the debates, there are still many questions, old and new, need to be explored in order to improve our understanding on ...