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The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community raises key issues: the deepening of regional trade and the associated problem of exchange rate management. This volume questions the capacity of a shallow institution to deal with complex impacts on employment and inequality. Contributors analyze ASEAN’s potential and weakness in readable terms. Edited By Bruno Jetin and Mia Mikic Introduction: Bruno Jetin & Mia Mikic PART I. ASEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF EAST ASIA REGIONALISM 1. ASEAN’s Imitation Economic Community: The Primacy of Domestic Political Economy; Lee Jones 2. By Chance or by Virtue? The regional economic integration in South East Asia; Jean-Raphal Chaponnire, Marc Lautier 3. Trade implications of the ASEAN+ agreements for other Asian countries; Mia Mikic 4. Southeast Asian Countries in Global Production Networks; Prema-chandra Athukorala 5. Impact of monetary regimes and exchange rates on ASEAN economic integration; Nabil Aflouk, Jacques Mazier and Myoung Keun On 6. Global Value Chains and competitiveness of the integrated region: exchange rate issues; Witada Anukoonwattaka 7. Intra and Extra-regional trade costs of ASEAN economies: Implications for Asian regional Integration; Yann Duval PART II. IMPACT OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION ON STRUCTURAL CHANGE, EMPLOYMENT, AND INEQUALITIES. 8. Regional trade agreements, employment and inclusiveness; Kee Kim Beom, Fan Zhai, Phu Huynh 9. Economic development with improved conditions of employment and reduced inequality: what choices does ASEAN have in the medium and long-term?; Francis Cripps, Naret Khurasee 10. Does Outsourcing Enhance Skill Premiums in ASEAN?; Aekapol Chongvilaivan 11. Regional integration and the creative economies of ASEAN: Assessing the potential for a single ASEAN creative economy ; Teemu Puutio PART III. IMPACT OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION ON POVERTY, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL COHESION 12. Trade, Infrastructure and Regional Inequality: Lessons for ASEAN Economic Community; Prabir De, Ajitava Raychaudhuri 13. Social Cohesion, Economic Resilience and Long-term Growth in Southeast Asia and Developing countries; Marc Lautier 14. Reduction of absolute poverty, increase of relative poverty and growing inequalities: a threat to social cohesion; Bruno Jetin 15. Investment in infrastructure and regional integration: Will connectivity reduce inequalities?; Nathalie Fau 16. Within-country spatial inequality and local governance capacity: the case of Indonesia; Christine Cabasset
