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Preface
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- By Kernial S. Sandhu, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
- Lawrence Krause, Ai Tee Koh, Tsao Yuan Lee
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- The Singapore Economy Reconsidered
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- ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
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- 21 October 2015
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- 01 January 1990, pp ix-xii
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Summary
The Singapore Economy Reconsidered owes its origins to a growing concern within and outside the Institute for the need of a comprehensive survey of the Singapore economy, particularly over the medium term. The decline of the economy in 1985, for the first time in twenty years, focused these concerns even more sharply, since it brought to light structural difficulties that had been hidden by the general economic growth. At the same time, the findings and recommendations of the Economic Committee, set up in 1985 under the chairmanship of the then Acting Minister for Trade and Industry, Brigadier-General (Res.) Lee Hsien Loong, provided additional data and a bench-mark to launch critical investigations into both the trends and desired future directions of the Singapore economy. It was felt that this objective could perhaps be best achieved if investigations were undertaken by a team of researchers, including those from outside Singapore, who could bring fresh insights and perspectives to the problems involved.
The first step taken to give substance to this idea was to check on the availability of Dr Lawrence B. Krause, and to seek the cooperation of the Brookings Institution where he worked as a Senior Fellow. Dr Krause had participated and helped direct three country studies for the Brookings Institution — on the United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia — and was known to have professional interest in Singapore. He readily endorsed the idea of a study along the lines above, and the Brookings Institution agreed to give him leave to undertake it.
For the Singapore component of the research team, Dr Koh Ai Tee and Dr Lee (Tsao) Yuan of the Department of Economics and Statistics, National University of Singapore, were approached and they too agreed to participate in the study.
Working contacts were also established with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, in terms of access to information and any other assistance required.
Foreword
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- By Pu Shan, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Beijing, Kernial S. Sandhu, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
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- ASEAN-China Economic Relations
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- ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
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- 21 October 2015
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- 01 January 1989, pp xi-xii
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ASEAN-China economic relations is an area of considerable significance. Indeed, if anything, this significance has been increasing in recent years. Yet this relationship remains poorly understood, particularly in terms of the overall issues involved and their implications for individual countries and the region as a whole. It was partly to correct this state of affairs and to put ASEAN-China economic relations in their proper perspective that a group of ASEAN and Chinese scholars came together in April 1985 to plan a three-year research project on “ASEAN- China Economic Relations”. Three themes were identified: Phase I — ASEAN- China Economic Relations: Trends and Patterns; Phase II — Developments in China and ASEAN and Their Implications for ASEAN-China Economic Relations; and Phase III — ASEAN-China Economic Relations in the Context of Pacific Economic Development and Co-operation. The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Beijing, are the co-ordinating institutions for ASEAN and China, respectively. Dr Chia Siow Yue is the Co-ordinator of the ASEAN aspects of the project and Mr Cheng Bifan, the Chinese aspects. Both Dr Chia Siow Yue and Mr Cheng Bifan are also the joint editors of the publications emanating from the project, with Dr Chia being responsible for the English edition and Mr Cheng Bifan, the Chinese edition.
The papers of the first phase of the project were presented at a workshop in Singapore in June 1986, and published under the title ASEAN-China Economic Relations: Trends and Patterns in October 1987. The research findings of the second phase were presented at a workshop in Beijing in October 1987. It is hoped that this second volume, ASEAN-China Economic Relations: Developments in ASEAN and China will also be useful to scholars and policy-makers concerned with ASEAN-China economic relations. The project on “ASEAN-China Economic Relations” has benefited immensely from the contributions of all participants, and from the financial support provided by the Ford Foundation and the International Development Research Centre, Canada. The Institutes would like to record their appreciation of all this assistance and support.
Foreword
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- By Kernial S. Sandhu, Director Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
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- ASEAN-South Asia Economic Relations
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- ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
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- 21 October 2015
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- 01 January 1985, pp vii-viii
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The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) is an autonomous research centre for scholars and other specialists concerned with modern Southeast Asia, including ASEAN. Reflecting this interest, there are several region-wide programmes in economics, politics, and social change based at the Institute. Of particular importance is the work of the ASEAN Economic Research Unit (AERU).
Established in 1979 in response to the need to deepen understanding of economic change and political developments in ASEAN, AERU is guided by an Advisory Committee consisting of senior economists from the ASEAN countries. It has progressed steadily and now has more than twenty-five projects under way or at various stages of completion, with several more in the pipeline. Together, these projects encompass all the priority areas for research recommended by the group of experts invited to the inauguration of the Unit: namely, Investment, Industry and Trade; Finance and Monetary Aspects; Food, Energy and Commodities; Transportation/Shipping; and Political Factors in ASEAN Economic Co-operation.
The largest number of AERU projects come under the broad heading of “Investment, Industry and Trade”. Within this group, those relating to ASEAN's economic relations with its main trading partners are the most prominent, and the project on ASEAN-South Asia Economic Relations falls into this category. It consists of a review of economic relations between the individual ASEAN countries and South Asia on the one hand, and those between the countries of South Asia and ASEAN on the other.
The project was a joint undertaking between the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, the Marga Institute, Colombo, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and the co-ordinators of the project were Dr Charan Wadhva, Professor of Economics and Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, and Dr Mukul Asher of the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore.
This is perhaps the first study of its kind on South Asia and ASEAN. It is therefore hoped that this pioneering effort will stimulate further research on the complexities and possibilities of the relationship between South Asia and ASEAN.
Preface
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- By Kernial S. Sandhu, Director Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
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- A Colloquium on Southeast Asian Studies
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- ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
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- 21 October 2015
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- 01 January 1981, pp ix-x
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The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies is an autonomous research centre for scholars and other specialists concerned with modern Southeast Asia, particularly the multifaceted problems of development and modernization, and political and social change. The Institute is supported by annual grants from Singapore and other governments, as well as donations from international and private organizations and individuals. It has neither students nor teaching functions, being purely a research body. In addition to support staff, the Institute has 25 to 30 academics and other specialists working at the Institute at any one time. About half of these are Southeast Asians, including Burmese, Indonesians, Malaysians, Filipinos, Singaporeans, Thais, and Vietnamese, and others come from as far afield as Europe, Japan and North America. Though from different disciplinary and national backgrounds, all these scholars share a common concern, that is, an interest in the problems of Southeast Asia. They function as a community of scholars and interact among themselves and with the public at large through a series of seminars and professional meetings. Their research findings are published through various outlets of the Institute and distributed all over the world. In other words, the Institute is not the proverbial ivory tower. Its involvement in the region's affairs is both direct and contemporary. It seeks to be not only a research organization devoted to nurturing a scholarly environment conducive to maximum intellectual creativity, but also one that is keenly alive to public issues and needs. In this light it was quite natural that we should get involved in an effort to take stock of some of the critical areas of concern necessary to a proper understanding of Southeast Asia. The setting for this occasion was the Sabah Conference on Southeast Asian Studies held in Kota Kinabalu in 1977.
The Conference attracted a large number of scholars and other specialists from both within and outside the region, and the volume that follows is based on papers specially written for the meeting.