Publication Date
June 2005
Recommended Citation
Jayanthakumaran, Kankesu and Sanidas, E., The Impact of Unilateral and Regional Trade Liberalisation on the Intra-ASEAN 5 Founding Nations’ Exports and Export-GDP Nexus, Department of Economics, University of Wollongong, 2005.
https://ro.uow.edu.au/commwkpapers/120
Abstract
This paper is differentiated from most previous studies in that it uses intra-ASEAN’s (of the 5 founding counties) historical data and it assesses both exports and the export-GDP nexus by isolating the following three different historical policy interventions: the introduction of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) in 1977, the unilateral liberalisation following the severe recession of the mid-1980s and the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) formation in 1992. Our findings indicate that the ASEAN-5 countries’ economies are moving together through time and emerged as a powerful integrated area as a consequence of all of the above three interventions. Unilateral liberalisation and ASEAN regionalism are complementary with each other. The ASEAN’s story is unique and relies on both outward orientation and positive aspects of regionalism.
Publication Details
Jayanthakumaran, K and Sanidas, E, The Impact of Unilateral and Regional Trade Liberalisation on the Intra-ASEAN 5 Founding Nations’ Exports and Export-GDP Nexus, Working Paper 05-14, Department of Economics, University of Wollongong, 2005.