IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/eab/tradew/23326.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Institutions for Asian Integration : Innovation and Reform

Author

Listed:
  • Giovanni Capannelli

    (Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI))

  • See Seng Tan

Abstract

The formation of regional production networks in East Asia has occurred mainly through market forces, without much help from regional institutions in promoting the creation of a single Asian market. While this approach has served the region well in the past, the drastic changes experienced since the 2008–2009 financial crisis and the challenges Asian countries are facing—growing inequalities and competition, on the one hand, and enhanced threats to the environment and people’s health on the other—have rendered more urgent the need for intergovernmental cooperation at global and regional levels. Asia’s institutions for regionalism need strengthening through reform and innovation such as better governance and resourcing, greater and more effective participation and delegation of powers, overall streamlining of regional architecture, including the phasing out of outdated or irrelevant institutions and, where needed, the creation of new ones. Ultimately, given its rootedness in regional order, institutional efficacy is a function of the ability and willingness of its members, especially influential stakeholders, to collaborate.

Suggested Citation

  • Giovanni Capannelli & See Seng Tan, 2012. "Institutions for Asian Integration : Innovation and Reform," Trade Working Papers 23326, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:eab:tradew:23326
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.eaber.org/node/23326
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Iulia Monica Oehler-Şincai, 2014. "The Roles Played By China And Japan In The Asian Integration Process," Romanian Economic Business Review, Romanian-American University, vol. 9(3), pages 131-148, September.
    2. Iulia Monica Oehler-Sincai, 2017. "The Actual Balance of Power in Asia-Pacific: Determinants, Characteristics and New Trends," Academic Journal of Economic Studies, Faculty of Finance, Banking and Accountancy Bucharest,"Dimitrie Cantemir" Christian University Bucharest, vol. 3(3), pages 62-72, September.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Asian integration; regional institutions; Regionalism; Asian market; intergovernmental cooperation; regional production networks;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • F55 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Institutional Arrangements
    • F59 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - Other

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eab:tradew:23326. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Shiro Armstrong (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/eaberau.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.