New Asian Regionalism

TRAN VAN HOA holds higher degrees from the University of Western Australia and Monash University, Victoria, Australia. He has taught widely at universities in Australia, Asia and the US and visited major international research institutes and universities. He was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne University, and has published over 20 books and over 130 refereed articles in a number of journals. In recent years, he has also been a consultant to a number of organisations and authorities in Australia and various ministries in Thailand and Vietnam. - CHARLES HARVIE is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Wollongong, Australia. During 2003-05 he is on secondment at the Hunter Valley Research Foundation, Newcastle, Australia, where he is the Director of Research. Dr Harvie has published numerous journal articles and books on the economies of East Asia, and in particular that of China, Indonesia, Korea and Vietnam. He has taught macroeconomics, international trade, transition economics and the economics of small business in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as in Australia and the UK. -

• New Asian Regionalism as Responses to Globalisation and Crises: Overview; T.Van Hoa Globalisation, Crises and the Emergence of New Asian Regionalism: Genesis and Current Development; T.Van Hoa PART I: REGIONAL ECONOMIC ISSUES The Systematic Effects of Recent Regionalism; P.Lloyd New Regionalism in East Asia and the Asian Development Model; H-H.Lee Development Strategies for Economies under Globalisation: Southeast Asia as a New Development Model; F.Kimura Regional SMEs and Competition in the Wake of the Financial and Economic Crisis; C.Harvie PART II: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES: TRADE, GLOBALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT The Chinese Transition of a Social Economy and its Competitiveness in International Trade; Y.Zhao & L.Zhao Vietnam: Global Slowdown, Integration, Growth and Social Impact; T.D.Nguyen Indonesia: Crises, Reform, Globalisation and SMEs;I The Aftermath of Thailand's Economic Crisis and Some Possible Ways Out; A.Puntasen WTO, Trade Reforms and The Philippines Economy: Are Filipinos Better Off?; C.F.Habito & R.Valenzuela PART III: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS Asian Regionalism, Crises and the World Economy: Challenges and Prospects; T.Van Hoa