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November,
2018 Current Topics |
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Asian Economic Integration Report 2018
(Full
Report,
Highlights). This
publication documents Asia’s progress in regional cooperation
and integration. It covers the 48 regional members of the Asian
Development Bank and analyzes regional as well as global
economic linkages. The 2018 report’s special chapter “Toward
Optimal Provision of Regional Public Goods in Asia and the
Pacific” examines how collective action among countries can help
find solutions to growing transnational development challenges.
The special chapter also discusses how to best provide regional
public goods that transcend the so-called “collective action
problem” which occurs when individual interests are too weak on
their own to drive cooperation on common issues. |
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Latest ADBI Working Paper Series:
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Trade Openness and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Evidence
from Cities in the People’s Republic of China, November 2018
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Role of Bank Lending in Financing Green Projects: A Dynamic
Stochastic General Equilibrium Approach, October 2018
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Green Finance in Pakistan: Barriers and Solutions, October
2018
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Proposal on the “i Bank Index,” A Measure of Banks’ Ability
to Nurture Client Businesses, October 2018
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Overview of Financial Inclusion, Regulation, Financial
Literacy, and Education in Central Asia and South Caucasus,
October 2018
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Energy Efficiency Finance Programs: Best Practices to
Leverage Private Green Finance, October 2018
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Financial Inclusion and Financial Literacy in Kazakhstan,
October 2018
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Latest ADB Working Paper Series:
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Latest ADB Publications:
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Building Complementarity and Resilience in ASEAN amid Global
Trade Uncertainty, October 2018
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Biodiversity Baseline Assessment: Phipsoo Wildlife Sanctuary
in Bhutan, October 2018
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Philippines: Energy Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road
Map, October 2018
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Energy Technology Innovation in South Asia: Implications for
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, October 2018
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Translating Women's Voices into Action in Mongolia:
Addressing Gender-Based Violence through Investments in
Infrastructure, October 2018
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Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goals in
Asia and the Pacific: Baseline and Pathways for
Transformative Change by 2030, Published 2018
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Inclusive Green Growth Index: A New Benchmark for Quality of
Growth, October 2018
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Tariff Appraisal Study: Balancing Sustainability and
Efficiency with Inclusive Access, October 2018
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Portable Screening Devices for Medicine Quality: Putting
Power into the Hands of Regulators in Low-Resource Settings,
October 2018
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Emerging Lessons on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Asia and the
Pacific: Case Studies from the Asian Development Bank and
The Asia Foundation, October 2018
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A Partnership Transformed: Three Decades of Cooperation
between the Asian Development Bank and the People's Republic
of China in Support of Reform and Opening Up, Published 2018
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Measuring, Monitoring, and Operationalizing Quality of
Growth: Implications for the People's Republic of China,
October 2018
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ASEAN+3 Bond Market Guide: Viet Nam, October 2018
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Tax and Development: Challenges in Asia and the Pacific,
Published 2018
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Harnessing Technology for More Inclusive and Sustainable
Finance in Asia and the Pacific, October 2018
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Philippine
Defense Cooperation with Russia: A Wake-up Call for the United
States? October 2018.
Since the election of President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016, the
Philippines has pursued an independent foreign policy aimed at
gaining distance from the United States. President Duterte has
called upon China and Russia for assistance in the modernization
of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), much to the
dislike of Washington. It must not be forgotten that the
Philippines and the United States have a long-standing military
alliance, established in various agreements: the 1951 Mutual
Defense Treaty (MDT), Military Assistance Agreement, Visiting
Forces Agreement, Cooperative Threat Reduction Agreement, and
the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, to name a few... |
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Promises of
the “Book of Hope”: Influences on the New Malaysian Government,
October 2018.
As Malaysia’s new Pakatan Harapan (translating as “Book of
Hope”) Government completes its first five months in office, its
challenge has shifted from winning elections to governing the
nation. Prior to May 9th, few would have expected that Pakatan
Harapan’s manifesto – Buku Harapan or Book of Hope – would guide
a new chapter in Malaysian politics. It is likely that its own
crafters perceived electoral victory as more a distant hope
rather than an assured reality. Yet with the defeat of the
long-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, Buku Harapan has
become central to Malaysia’s new direction and priorities,
continues to influence Malaysia’s governance, and can possibly
alter power sharing arrangements in Malaysian politics... |
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The Free and
Open Indo-Pacific Strategy and Uncertainties for India & Japan,
October 2018.
The Trump administration has signaled its intention to engage
closely with the Indo-Pacific by committing to new strategic
investment initiatives and economic cooperation with Japan,
India, Australia, and Mongolia. The concept of the Free and Open
Indo-Pacific strategy (FOIP) is not new and was originally
coined and reflected in Japan's forein policy strategy under the
Abe administration. However, India and Japan continue to face
some uncertainties over the nature of their engagement with the
United States' vision of the FOIP. These uncertainties arise
from lack of clarity over whether the FOIP would focus more on
economic development or aim to develop into a security-oriented
strategy for countering China... |
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High
Frequency Macroeconomic Forecasts Current Quarter Model:
2018Q4, October 2018. Real GDP is estimated to grow
by 3.0% in 18Q3, when compared with the same period in
2017, moderate from the 3.5% growth in 18Q2. In 18Q4,
real GDP growth is expected to moderate to 2.7% when
compared with the same period last year. Comparing to
the 3.8% growth in 2017, we expect Hong Kong GDP will
moderate to 3.4% in 2018 as a whole, downward revised by
0.6 percentage point comparing to our previous forecast
reflecting the impact of rising interest rate and the
uncertainty of the US-China trade war... |
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Monetary
Authority of Singapore: Macroeconomic Review, Volume XVII,
Issue 2, October 2018 (Full
Report,
Presentation Slides for Briefing):
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Singapore Corporate Debt Market Review 2018. Issuance
volumes in Singapore’s corporate bond market increased
significantly in 2017, on the back of the continued expansion in
the global economy and the introduction of MAS’ Asian Bond Grant
Scheme. Total debt issued rose 39% year-on-year to SGD 259
billion in 2017, from SGD 186 billion in 2016. Growth was driven
by increased issuances of both SGD and non-SGD denominated debt
securities. SGD debt securities issued reached a 5-year high of
SGD 27 billion, catalysed by strong investor sentiment and
issuers seeking to secure longer term funding ahead of the
expected rate increases... |
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2017 Singapore Asset Management Industry Survey, October 2018.
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the end of 2017, total assets managed by Singapore-based asset
managers grew strongly by 19% year-on-year to reach S$3.3
trillion, up from S$2.7 trillion in 2016. This has outpaced the
past five years’ average growth rate of 15%. Singapore has
maintained a high level of discretionary3 AUM at 53% in 2017, in
line with the past five years’ average. Asset managers continue
to view Singapore as a conducive place to conduct portfolio
management activity. In 2017, there was a net increase of 55
registered and licensed fund managers. This brings the total
number of registered and licensed fund managers to 715... |
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MAS Survey of Professional Forecasters, September 2018. The
Singapore economy expanded by 3.9% in Q2 2018 compared with the
same period last year, similar to the median forecast reported
in the June survey. In the current survey, year-on-year growth
in Q3 2018 is expected to come in at 2.1%... |
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Thematic Review of Credit Review Standards and Practices of
Corporate Lending Business, October 2018. Banks are
expected to actively manage their credit risks to ensure their
credit portfolios remain resilient to vulnerabilities in the
external environment. This would entail putting in place
adequate credit risk management policies, as well as effective
credit review and monitoring processes to identify and manage
problem loans at an early stage. With this expectation in mind
and against a backdrop of continuing uncertainties in the global
macroeconomic environment, MAS conducted a thematic review of
selected banks’ credit review standards and processes for their
corporate loan portfolios between October 2016 and June 2017.
The thematic review focused on assessing the banks’:.. |
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Enforcement, September 2018. This Monograph outlines
the approach that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”)
takes towards enforcement, the role that enforcement plays in
the wider objective of financial industry oversight and the key
areas of MAS’ enforcement practice and powers across the
financial industry. As Singapore’s financial industry grows in
size and complexity, it is not possible to prevent all
regulatory breaches. MAS recognises the need to have the
capability to take swift action to investigate and punish
serious misconduct, thereby deterring unethical and illegal
behaviour. On 1 August 2016, MAS established a dedicated
Enforcement Department to centralise MAS’ enforcement functions
and capabilities in order to enhance consistency and expertise
in the enforcement functions across the banking, insurance,
capital markets and other sectors regulated by MAS... |
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Latest APEC publications:
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APEC: Trekking the Road to Financial Inclusion, October 2018
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Enhancing the Competitiveness of Women-led MSMEs in the
Garments and Textile Sector through Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, September 2018
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Policies, Legislation, and Initiatives to Promote Access to
ICTs for People with Hearing and/or Speech Impairment, June
2018
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APEC FSCF Workshop on Trade Facilitation through the
Recognition of Food Safety Systems Equivalence, September
2018
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Workshop on Sustainable and Inclusive Investment Policies
within the APEC Region, October 2018
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Policy Review for APEC Low-Carbon Model Town Phase 7:
Krasnoyarsk City, Russia, October 2018
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Supporting the Development and Implementation of Low
Emission Development Strategies in the Transport Sector,
July 2018
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GDPR and CBPR: Reconciling Personal Data Protection and
Trade, October 2018
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October,
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Reinforcing Indonesia–Australia Defence Relations: The Case for Maritime
Recalibration, October 2018.
Indonesia and Australia are increasingly important strategic anchors in
the Indo-Pacific region, as recognised by the recently announced
Indonesia–Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Yet
historically, bilateral defence ties between the two countries have been
volatile. This Analysis makes the case for a maritime recalibration of
Australia’s defence engagement activities with Indonesia to stabilise
defence relations. The process of recalibrating defence relations,
however, cannot proceed in a historical vacuum. The evolution of
Australia’s Defence Cooperation Program (DCP) with Indonesia since the
1960s is examined in order to understand how the relationship could be
recalibrated... |
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Batam: Life after the FTZ? October 2018. Once an island
of high-tech production and turbo-charged growth, Batam’s
economic fortunes have waned of late. The traditional pillars of
the manufacturing sector have contracted, investment levels have
fallen, the island’s growth rate is below the national average,
and unemployment has increased sharply. In response,
policy-makers are promoting the development of new sectors to
diversify the island’s economic base. There are debates on
whether Batam’s status should be changed from a Free Trade Zone
(FTZ) to a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to draw in more
investment. This paper aims to contribute to the debates on how
to revitalize the island’s economy... |
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Education in Malaysia Towards a Developed Nation, September 2018
. Education plays a key role in realising Malaysia’s
aspirations to be a developed nation. This paper provides a
critical assessment of the state of education in Malaysia. The
issues that will be discussed in this paper includes the
country’s current ethos and philosophy of education, technical
and vocational education (TVET), technology and flexible
learning, and governance and financing of higher education. The
paper also highlights critical omissions in the current Eleventh
Malaysia Plan. |
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Asian Development Outlook 2018
Update
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Highlights.
Developing Asia's gross domestic product is forecast to expand
by 6.0% in 2018 and 5.8% in 2019. Consumer prices for 2018 and
2019 are projected to rise by 2.8%. Growth in developing Asia
has so far held up against external headwinds. The forecast for
rising inflation is tempered despite higher global fuel and food
prices. Downside risks to the outlook are intensifying. Any
escalation of the trade conflict could disrupt cross-border
production links. While the region is expected to meet the Asian
Development Outlook 2018 forecast of 6.0% growth in 2018, the
projection for 2019 has been trimmed by 0.1 percentage points to
5.8%. Excluding Asia’s high-income newly industrialized
economies, the region is expected to expand by 6.5% this year
and 6.3% in 2019... |
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Key Indicators for
Asia and the Pacific 2018
(Full Report):
Key Indicators for
Asia and the Pacific 2017 covers 48
economies:
Afghanistan,
Armenia,
Australia,
Azerbaijan,
Bangladesh,
Bhutan,
Brunei Darussalam,
Cambodia,
China,
Cook Islands,
Fiji Islands,
Georgia,
Hong
Kong,
India,
Indonesia,
Japan,
Kazakhstan,
Kiribati,
Republic
of Korea,
Kyrgyz Republic,
Lao,
Malaysia,
Maldives,
Marshall Islands,
Micronesia,
Mongolia,
Myanmar,
Nauru,
Nepal,
New Zealand,
Pakistan,
Palau,
Papua New Guinea,
Philippines,
Samoa,
Singapore,
Solomon Islands,
Sri Lanka,
Taipei,
Tajikistan,
Thailand,
Timor-Leste,
Tonga,
Turkmenistan,
Tuvalu,
Uzbekistan,
Vanuatu,
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Asia
Bond Monitor, September 2018. Local currency bond
markets in emerging East Asia grew 3.2% from the first quarter
of 2018, with government bonds expanded 4.0% and corporate bonds
rose 1.8%. Local currency (LCY) bond yields in emerging East
Asia diverged due to disparate monetary policy stances across
the region and global economic uncertainties. In the People’s
Republic of China (PRC), yields fell as the central bank reduced
the reserve requirement ratios for some banks, while yields rose
in Indonesia in response to its central bank’s monetary
tightening and in the Philippines where the central bank raised
policy rates in May and June... |
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Latest ADB Publications:
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Latest ADBI Working Paper Series:
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Sectoral Labor Income Share Dynamics: Cross-Country Evidence
from a Novel Data Set, September 2018
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Export Boom, Employment Bust? The Paradox of Indonesia’s
Displaced Workers, 2000–2014, September 2018
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Globalization and Environment in India, September 2018
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Use of Financial Technology in the Agriculture Sector,
September 2018
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Regional Variations of Banking Services and Poverty
Reduction: Evidence from Subdistrict Level Administrative
Data of Bangladesh, September 2018
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Comparative Study on the Role of Public–Private Partnerships
and Green Investment Banks in Boosting Low-Carbon
Investments, September 2018
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“Cap and Invest” Strategy for Managing the Intergenerational
Burden of Financing Energy Transitions, September 2018
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Energy Market Liberalization for Unlocking Community-Based
Green Finance, September 2018
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Central Banking, Climate Change, and Green Finance,
September 2018
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Financial Strategy to Accelerate Green Growth, September
2018
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Asian Development Review, Vol.
35,
No. 2, 2018 (Full
Report):
This edition of the Asian Development Review brings together
scholars who highlight the need for concrete and rapid actions
to adapt to climate change. The latest
Asian Development Review has a special issue on the climate
change challenge to Asia’s development. Climate change may
reverse the region’s economic development achievements since the
second half of the 20th century and improvements in living
standards. Eight articles in this issue highlight the need for
concrete and rapid actions to adapt to climate change.
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Going Legit? the Foreign Policy of Vladimir Putin, September 2018.
Vladimir Putin’s re-election for a fourth presidential term in May 2018
has enshrined his position as the dominant personality of the
post-Soviet era. Over the next six years, there will be few major
changes to Russian foreign policy. There is broad consensus in Moscow
that this has been outstandingly successful, and that Russia has emerged
as a formidable power. But alongside an overall sense of confidence,
there is also caution and even anxiety. Putin recognises the importance
of tactical flexibility in an international environment that is
increasingly fluid and unpredictable. He is also aware that Russia’s
foreign policy gains are fragile and potentially reversible, and that
the country faces considerable obstacles in its quest to become a
rule-maker in a new, post-American world order... |
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India's
Continental Connect on Indo-Pacific and Quad 2.0, September 2018.
No aspect of India’s contemporary foreign policy is debated as
much as New Delhi’s approach towards the Quadrilateral
consultative forum (popularly known as the “Quad”) vis-à-vis
China. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at the Shangri-La
dialogue on June 1, 2018 indicated that he was not deeming the
Indo-Pacific as a “strategy” but viewing China and Russia as
partners within the purview of India’s strategic autonomy. This
has stimulated a debate about whether India’s approach towards
Quad 2.0 is China bound or not. Modi’s attempt to rebuild New
Delhi’s relationship with China post-Doklam has reinvigorated
this debate... |
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US-China
Development Cooperation: New Bilateral Dynamics? September 2018.
In recent years, the US-China relationship has been marked by
competition. The two powers have been wrestling in the South
China Sea and more recently in a trade war, attracting global
attention. The development sector is a less well known aspect in
bilateral relations. China’s rise as the largest emerging donor
is challenging the traditional aid regime led by the United
States and other developed nations. Chinese aid-spending has
increased dramatically since 2000. Not being a member of the
OECD Development Assistance Committee, China is not bound by the
requirements of the institution, and insists on ‘common but
differentiated responsibility.’ ... |
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US-China
Technology Competition is about “Self Transcendence”, September
2018.
Eric Schmidt, then executive chairman of Alphabet, Google's
parent firm, commented on China's AI ambition on November 1,
2017, in Washington DC: "By 2020 the Chinese will have caught up
(to the United States). By 2025 they will be better than us. And
by 2030 they will dominate the industries of AI." Not to miss
the boat, about one and a half months later, Google announced
its first major China move after its search engine left the
mainland in 2010 — that it was opening a Google AI China Center
in Beijing, its first in Asia, led by the Chinese-American
scientist Feifei Li... |
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Hard News and Free Media as the Sharp Edge of Australian Soft
Power, September 2018. In this report, three Asia-Pacific
media specialists have produced three perspectives on the
history, dynamics and politics of funding of the ABC’s
international efforts over the past two decades. They show that,
while Australian politicians and ABC leaders themselves have
been distracted by domestic and institutional issues, other
state-owned media organisations—such as China’s—have expanded
their footprint across Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
Australian Government decisions over the past decade haven’t
just meant that Australia has trod water while this happened—in
fact, we have stepped back and silenced broadcasts and local
content while others have stepped up... |
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Too Big to Ignore. Assessing the strategic implications of
China's Belt and Road Initiative, August 2018. This report
identifies the management of one conundrum above all else as the
key to the BRI’s fortunes from a Chinese perspective: the
ability to retain sufficient support from the world’s
governments and institutions as a means of both underpinning its
business case and heading off the possibility of geo-economic
and geostrategic competition... |
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Latest APEC publications:
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A Return to War: Militarized Conflicts in Northern Shan
State, July 2018.
Myanmar’s internal armed conflict erupted in 1948 just after
it gained independence from Britain. The principle armed
actors in Myanmar’s civil wars have involved the Myanmar
Defense Services, or Tatmadaw, and dozens of armed
resistance groups. In 2008, after decades of militarized
violence under civilian and then military regimes, the
Tatmadaw initiated political reforms which allowed for the
transition to a quasi-democratic or hybrid regime. In 2011,
the newly elected Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)
government commenced engagement with ethnic armed
organizations (EAOs) in an effort to resolve the
long-running civil war. These efforts have been continued by
the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led government since
March 2016.... |
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Air Warfare Destroyer - The Game-Changer, August 2018 is
Robert’s second monograph for the ASPI case studies in defence
projects series which brings out the human drama and dilemmas of
decision-making in what is a multi-billion-dollar, high-stakes
business to equip the Australian Defence Force. Our aim, which
he delivers on superbly, is to present a balanced, ‘warts and
all’ account of the challenges involved in getting these
decisions right. There’s so much more to complex project
management than simply cost, schedule and capacity. Robert shows
how politics (both big and little p), technology, budgeting and
the fallibility of human decision-making all intersect to make
the defence capability development and acquisition business one
of the most demanding of all public sector tasks... |
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Mice that Roar, August 2018. This report argues that over
the past five years, there’s been an increase in coastguard and
maritime border response capabilities across much of ASEAN.
ASEAN states have primarily focused their new capabilities on
enhancing physical presence patrols and response within their
respective exclusive economic zones (EEZs). Coastguards have
become important strategic cushions between navies in ASEAN.
Underpinning this regional maritime strategic trend is an
assumption that coastguard vessels are less threatening, in
terms of their potential use of force, to the captains and crews
of other nations’ vessels during unplanned encounters at sea... |
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Anti-Money Laundering. A Case Study, July 2018. The
Australian Government’s technological monopolies have ended.
Technological developments, especially those that have been
disruptive, have been driven primarily by private corporations
for at least the past 10 years. Meanwhile, legislative responses
to those changes, be they disruptive or otherwise, have been
increasingly delayed. Acceleration in the development and use of
technology has been matched by changes in the capability of
those who would do us harm. In the face of rapid social change,
governments have lost more than a technological edge, as the
very conceptualisations of sovereignty and geographical
jurisdictions are being challenged... |
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National Security in the Philippines Under Duterte, June 2018.
In May 2016, Rodrigo Duterte, the long-term mayor of Davao City,
won a resounding victory in the Philippines national
presidential election, becoming the country’s first elected
leader from the conflict-ravaged province of Mindanao. He has
since set in train a highly populist agenda that has seen
internal security and stability as the main priority of his
tenure. Central to that focus has been countering terrorism,
ending longstanding armed insurgencies and addressing violent
crime at home, while pursuing a flexible policy overseas that’s
aimed at giving him sufficient time and space to deal with
pressing domestic concerns... |
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Latest APEC publications:
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Effective Coalbed Methane (CBM) Recovery Technologies for
APEC Developing Economies, July 2018
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Promoting Innovative Green Financing Mechanisms for
Sustainable and Quality Infrastructure Development in the
APEC Region, August 2018
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APEC Oil and Gas Security Exercise in Peru, May 2018
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Project Report on the Five Years Construction of the First
Low-Carbon Town - Yujiapu CBD, May 2018
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Energy Security of APEC Economies and Changing Downstream
Oil Environment, August 2018
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Advanced Capacity Building for Mycotoxin Prevention and
Control in Food and Feed Commodities in Asia-Pacific, July
2018
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Best Practices on Standards and Conformity Assessment
Implementation for Eco-Design Products in the APEC Region,
June 2018
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APEC Forum: Promoting Stakeholders' Building Capacities in
Clusters and Local Economic Promotion Instruments, May 2018
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APEC Energy Efficiency Policy Workshop 2018 Summary Report:
Conformity Assessment Approaches, August 2018
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SCE Fora Assessment: Counter- Terrorism Working Group, 2018
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SCE Fora Assessment: Group of Friends on Disability, 2018
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SCE Fora Assessment: Energy Working Group, 2018
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SCE Fora Assessment: Human Resources Development Working
Group, 2018
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APEC Information Sharing Best Practices on Merger Control
Regimes, July 2018
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Investments in Natural Gas Supply Chain under the Low Price
Environment, June 2018
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Renewed APEC Agenda for Structural Reform (RAASR) - Mid-Term
Review Report, August 2018
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APEC's Ease of Doing Business – Interim Assessment
2015-2017, August 2018
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Indonesia's Economy: Between Growth and Stability, August 2018.
Views of the Indonesian economy oscillate between optimism that it is
set to become the world’s next economic giant and fear of renewed
instability. Such views, however, get the story backwards. Indonesian
policymakers have consistently prioritised stability over growth. The
more concerning issue is that the economy is now heading into its fifth
consecutive year of subdued growth. Although growth is solid at about 5
per cent a year, it is inadequate in terms of the job creation and
economic modernisation required to meet Indonesia’s development needs
and ambitions. The problems are structural... |
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ASEAN–Australia Relations: The Suitable Status Quo, August 2018.
The first ASEAN–Australia Special Summit held in Sydney in March 2018
led some Australian commentators to advocate for Australia to join the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Even if Australian
membership could be made possible by changing the ASEAN Charter and
achieving a consensus among ASEAN member states in favour of membership,
it would not serve Australian interests in Southeast Asia as well as
Australia’s current dialogue partner relationship with ASEAN... |
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Unregulated Population Migration and Other Future Drivers of Instability
in the Pacific, July 2018.
Unregulated population migration within the Pacific has serious security
and stability implications for the region, including Australia and New
Zealand. Drivers of unregulated population migration include
non‑traditional security challenges such as changing environmental and
climatic conditions, disaster management, food and water scarcity, and
pandemics. Other drivers include man‑made stresses such as civil
conflict and fragile and unstable governments, growing interest from
external actors, and organised crime... |
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“Americanism, Not Globalism”: President Trump and the American Mission,
July 2018.
From the end of the Second World War, the dominant current of American
exceptionalism in the rhetoric and outlook of US presidents has been the
belief that the United States has a special mission to redeem the world
by extending liberty and democracy to all peoples. However, President
Donald Trump is an exception. He believes that in the post-Cold War era
successive administrations in Washington have pursued reckless visions
of regional or global hegemony — especially in the Middle East — leaving
the home front to languish and the nation open to ridicule... |
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Australia-US
Convergence on the "Indo-Pacific": AUSMIN 2018, August 2018.
The AUSMIN meeting held last month brought together the US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James
Mattis with the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie
Bishop and Minister for Defense Marise Payne. Its Indo-Pacific
focus was unmistakable. Whereas the 2017 AUSMIN Joint
Declaration mentioned the “Indo-Pacific” but once and for the
first time at AUSMIN, the 2018 Joint Declaration mentioned the
“Indo-Pacific” 11 times; with the “Asia-Pacific,” the previously
dominant term of strategic reference, unmentioned... |
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India-Indonesia Relations and Indo-Pacific Security, August 2018.
Though India and Indonesia do have long historical and cultural
linkages, strategic partnership has been a recent development.
The two share multiple common concerns, one of which pertains to
China’s rapid rise and its intentions in the maritime theater.
Since 2014, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
been trying to boost India’s ties with many Southeast Asian
countries as part of its ‘Act East Policy’ which was recently
manifest in his visit to Indonesia in late May just ahead of his
first-ever speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore... |
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Malaysia's
Development Depends on International and Domestic Support for
Maritime Connectivity, August 2018. Southeast Asia consists
of two portions, mainland Southeast Asia and maritime Southeast
Asia. More than 80 percent of the region’s surface is covered by
the ocean, which means that maritime connectivity is crucial for
the development of trade and transportation. The region contains
several of the world’s busiest international sea lines of
communication. Several major ports are located there, namely,
the Port of Singapore and Port Klang and Port of Tanjung Pelepas
(PTP) in Malaysia. The Strait of Malacca receives an average of
80,000 vessels annually... |
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Unraveling
China’s Investments in Malaysia, August 2018. China was not
an important investor in Malaysia prior to 2012. However, after
the announcement of “One Belt, One Road” (or OBOR) in late 2013
— subsequently renamed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) —
Malaysia has increasingly attracted more investments from China.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s China Going
Global Investment Index, which ranks 59 major economies in terms
of their attractiveness to Chinese firms, Malaysia’s ranking
jumped up from 20th in 2015 to fourth in 2017. While the speed
at which China’s investment has increased has attracted public
attention and concern, there are other dimensions to China’s
investment that may not be so obvious to the public eye... |
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Malaysia's
Defense Policy After the 2018 Elections, August 2018. The
shocking election win by Malaysia’s opposition coalition in the
country’s general elections in May raised the prospect of
dramatic changes across Malaysia’s politics, economics, and
society. But one of the other key areas of uncertainty is the
security realm, and how Malaysia’s approach could shift over the
next few years under the new Pakatan Harapan (PH) government
currently led by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad... |
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Malaysia's May
2018 General Election and Foreign Policy, August 2018. The
14th Malaysian General Elections (GE14) held in May saw the then
main opposition alliance of Pakatan Harapan, together with an
allied party from East Malaysia, win a surprising 121 of 222
Parliamentary seats, allowing them to form a simple majority
government. Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is once
again leading the nation at the age of 92. The Barisan Nasional
coalition, which ruled from even before independence, now sits
on the opposition bench alongside the Islamist party PAS, while
Barisan’s election allies from Sarawak in East Malaysia already
have left the coalition to form an independent block of their
own... |
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Myanmar Opens
a New Chapter in Dealing with Big Neighbor China, July 2018.
Myanmar’s Shan state — the country’s biggest state — has a long
border with China, and is on the cusp of becoming the axis of
the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), part of China’s Belt
and Road Initiative (BRI). It is home to the famed “Burma Road”
which had been a lifeline for the Republic of China before and
during WWII — a conduit for US war supplies to the beleaguered
Chinese forces holding back a Japanese invasion. And long before
it was the “Burma Road” the route had seen trade and invasion
from China into Myanmar for centuries. Tea, opium, silver, and
lead were among the commodities carried by mule caravans to
Yunnan and beyond... |
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Trends in
Southeast Asia 2018 #19: Agriculture in Johor: What’s Left?
Despite decades of industrialization, Johor remains an
agricultural powerhouse. The state is Peninsular Malaysia’s
largest contributor to agricultural gross domestic product, and
its official agricultural productivity is Malaysia’s third
highest. Johor’s agricultural strengths lie primarily in product
specialization, namely the farming of oil palms, various fruits
and vegetables, poultry, pigs, cut flowers, and ornamental fish.
Johor’s production clusters have taken decades, if not
centuries, to build up their regional dominance. Urbanization,
often blamed for diminishing agriculture’s importance, has
actually helped drive Johor’s farm growth, even until the
present day... |
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SME Policies and Performance in Malaysia, July 2018 This
study aims to achieve two major objectives. First, to assess
policies and initiatives implemented for the development of
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia from the
Eighth Malaysia Plan (2001-2005) to the Eleventh Malaysia Plan
(2016-2020) as well as the SME Masterplan (2012-2020). Second,
to analyze the performances and contributions of SMEs in
Malaysia. The study provides a critical analysis of the adequacy
of the Eleventh Malaysia Plan for SME development including
whether the targeted goals for SMEs towards 2020 can be
achieved... |
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