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Commentary: Inequality looms beneath the shiny facade of Southeast Asia's growth
(CNA, 2017-04-23) -
Income Inequality in ASEAN: Perceptions on Regional Stability from Indonesia and the Philippines
Income inequality has been a growing concern since Global Financial Crisis. But how do regional institutions contribute to the debate on income equality? ASEAN’s normative framework is underpinned by the principle of non-interference while ASEAN has a mandate to establish an equitable economic community post 2015. This study examines if regional income inequality is considered a regional problem, and if so, is the concern significant enough to overcome the principle of non-interference allowing ASEAN to play a greater role in policy formation. ... -
Inequality in China
(Oxford University Press, 2014-10-30)
This paper provides an overview of research on income inequality in China over the period of economic reform. It presents the results of two main sources of evidence on income inequality and, assisted by various decompositions, explains the reasons income inequality has increased rapidly and the Gini coefficient is now almost 0.5. This paper evaluates the degree of income inequality from the perspectives of people’s subjective well-being and government concerns. It poses the following question: has income inequality peaked? It also discusses the ... -
Population Aging and Inequality: Evidence from the People’s Republic of China
Population aging has significant economic and social costs, and this paper studies its impacts on inequality, both theoretically and empirically. First, we build a two-period overlapping-generation model with an uncertain lifetime and find that population aging has the overall effect of increasing income and consumption inequality within the society. For the empirical analysis, we use household data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to assess the age effect on income and consumption inequality in the People’s Republic of China and confirm ... -
ASEAN: The Rich & Poor Gap & The Drive for Growth
(2014-02-17) -
Education, Globalization, and Income Inequality in Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-05)
This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The evidence supports the validity of Kuznets’ inverted-U hypothesis for the connection between income level and income inequality. However, when more variables are integrated into the model, the consistency of the inverse U-shaped curve becomes weaker. The empirical results suggest that educational variables are highly influential in affecting income distribution. Our analysis indicates that a higher level of education achieved by ... -
Demystifying rising inequality in Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019)
Income inequality is one of the most profound social, economic, and political challenges of our time. The gap between the rich and the poor has been regarded as a major concern for policy makers. This gap is at its highest level in decades for developed economies, while the inequality trend has been rising in many developing countries. In Asia, despite recent economic growth, income distribution has been worsening as well. This book contributes to the existing literature on inequality in Asia by overviewing the new trend of inequality in Asia and ... -
Growing gap between richest and poorest Thais
(the ASEAN Post, 2019-10-25) -
Malaysia PM warns inequality fuelling extremism; ASEAN urges calm over North Korea
(Reuter, 2017-04-28) -
Leni to ASEAN: Address gender inequality
(Manila Bulletin News, 2017-11-07) -
Thailand’s wealth inequality is the highest in the world: What will this mean for the upcoming elections?
(United Nation ESCAP, 2019-01-16) -
What is the Future of Integration and Inequality in ASEAN?
(the Diplomat, 2017-09-15) -
World Bank: Wealth inequality a threat to East Asia, Pacific
(the Star Online, 2017-12-04) -
Beating the Middle-Income Trap in Southeast Asia
(The Heritage Foundation, 2014)
Since 2000, Southeast Asia has had some of the fastest growing economies in the world. Indonesia’s economy has enjoyed 6 percent annual growth—but will its lack of infrastructure and its commodity dependence soon reveal some cracks in its economy? The remarkable growth in the Philippines will not last unless domestic investment is elevated. Thailand’s growth has stalled amid political turmoil, and it is currently in a classic credit bubble. Vietnam still generates impressive growth, but it has a banking problem, high inflation, and ubiquitous ... -
Reign-seeking and the Rise of the Unelected in Thailand
(Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2016)
This article develops the concept of “reign-seeking” to capture the unprecedented collective action of the Thai professional and official elite prior to the 2014 military coup and the establishment of a military regime. It argues that this phenomenon reflects broad and deep political dynamics, for which the dominant scholarship on authoritarianism and Thai politics cannot adequately explain. The changing incentives of these supposedly non-partisan actors are interwoven with neo-liberal governance reform driven by a desire for depoliticisation and ... -
Politics, Power, and Change
(KPMG)
There are 10 varied and challenging national storylines unfolding in ASEAN – and businesses need to join these conversations. Juggling the many demands of an increasingly complex stakeholder universe – from consumers to politicians, regulators to society at large – will require an understanding of the wide array of domestic and regional political risks in ASEAN. While there are some challenges that are common to many countries in ASEAN, the level of risk and trend direction vary. There are several questions on geo-strategy in the region: Will ... -
Singapore's migrant workers struggle to get paid
(CNN, 2018)