Economic Growth in the Asean Region: the Political Underpinnings

Mackie, J. A. C.

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“…The political process in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, especially in East Asia, is very different. Much of the literature on the policymaking process there emphasises the autonomy enjoyed by the state, in developmental and patrimonial variants alike (Amsden 1989;MacIntyre 1991;Mackie 1988;Wade 1990). The channels through which business influences the state are often informal and opaque.…”

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Multilateralising regionalism: what role for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement?

Capling

Ravenhill

2011

The Pacific Review

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The Asia-Pacific region is home to a large and rapidly growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). These agreements differ widely in design, scope and purpose. The "noodle bowl" that has resulted runs the risk of distorting investment and trade. Neither global institutions (the WTO) nor regional institutions such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping have successfully addressed these issues. Amidst this increasingly messy situation, the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement stands out for a range of important economic and political reasons, not least of which is its potential to take existing PTAs in the Asia-Pacific region in a new direction. The aim of the TPP negotiators is to produce a comprehensive, high quality, multi-party agreement to tame the tangle of PTAs and be a potential stepping stone to achieving the goal of liberalizing regional trade on a non-discriminatory basis. The economic gains from removing border barriers among the countries involved in the initial TPP negotiations are likely to be limited, however, given the small size of many of the economies and the existing PTAs among them. To date, the US has been unwilling to offer a single set of arrangements for all TPP partners, preferring to build on existing bilateral agreements. Pessimism about the immediate results from the TPP should be tempered, however, by considerations of the dynamics that it might set in train;

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Section: The Political Economy Of Multilateralisationmentioning

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Multilateralising regionalism: what role for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement?

Capling

Ravenhill

2011

The Pacific Review

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“…Economic nationalism, and its ideological legacies, has constituted a far more signifi cant political constraint upon governments in Southeast Asia than in the Northeast Asian economies, regarding both the importance of foreign capital and most strikingly the economic role of the Southeast Asian Chinese minorities (Mackie, 1988). In short, the role of the state in Southeast Asia has included both an accumulation function and a legitimation function (Linqueco, McFarlane and Odhnoff , 1989), but whether this is sustainable or not is a matter of investigation, and especially in terms of autonomy, capacity and welfare; in other words, it is an empirical question.…”

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Rasiah¹,

Schmidt²

2010

The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia

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Southeast Asia's unique history, which covers some of the culturally rich nations of the world, has been shaped by both internal and international forces of change. The classical period of Southeast Asian history was marked both by the profound infl uence of forces external to the region and by a range of indigenous responses. Taken together, they shaped the elements for new forms of state and society, religion and culture, economy and commerce, labour relations and the environment.

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“…There is now a growing body of literature that maintains that while the developmental state hypothesis may be applicable to the NIEs, it is not really applicable to South-East Asia (Mackie, 1988;MacIntyre, 1992;Laothamatas, 1992;Doner, 1991). In the case of Malaysia, the first obvious point to make is that it does not have an authoritarian political system along the lines of, say, Korea under Park Chung-hee.…”

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The Institutional and Political Framework of Growth in an Ethnically Diverse Society: The Case of Malaysia

Chowdhury

Islam

1996

Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'étud

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This paper classifies Malaysia as an enigmatic case, because it is regarded as one of the "miracle" economies of the world despite an ambitious affirmative action program that was vulnerable to the risk of deterring the growth process. Critics have rightly pointed out the predictable microeconomic distortions of Malaysia's "New Economic Policy," but such distortions were not signifjcant enough to impair economic performance. This paper argues that Malaysia fits the strong version of the notion of "shared growth," in which both poverty and inequality declined and in which the alleviation of inter-ethnic imbalances had growthproducing effects because o f their contrr'bution t o social cohesion and political stability. In addition, the focus on export-oriented industrialization and investment in basic education and rural infrastructure contributed to the phenomenon of "shared growth." * We are grateful to Dr. Leong Liew of Asian International Studies, Griffith University for drawing our attention to the work of Murphy et al., and to the anonymous referees for helpful comments. The usual caveats apply.

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Economic Growth in the Asean Region: the Political Underpinnings

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Multilateralising regionalism: what role for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement?

Multilateralising regionalism: what role for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement?

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The Institutional and Political Framework of Growth in an Ethnically Diverse Society: The Case of Malaysia

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