Is ASEAN prone to Another Financial Crisis: Risk and Policy Challenge? ♣ Bandid Nijathaworn 1. Introduction The last twenty years have been eventful for the economies of ASEAN in terms of financial crisis and policy management. Since the 1990s‚ the region had gone through two major financial crises‚ one as a region where a crisis began while the other as a recipient of a major crisis. Both provide the ASEAN economies with a wide range of valuable policy experience for assessing the region’s
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INDIA-ASEAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT:-A SETOR-WISE IMPACT ANALYSIS (REVIEW OF LITERATURE) INDIA- ASEAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT:-A SECTOR-WISE IMPACT ANALYSIS (REVIEW OF LITERATURE) ASEAN emerged as a major actor in the politics of Asia Pacific region after the end of cold war. Date back history reveals that India had extensive cultural‚ economic and political ties with the Southeast Asian Nations. But after Independence
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FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: A Double Edged Knife? 1. INTRODUCTION Indian economic policy after independence was influenced by the colonial experience. The economic policies of the British Raj effectively bankrupted India’s large handicrafts industry and caused a massive drain of India’s resources. An estimate by Cambridge University historian Angus Maddison reveals that India’s share of world income fell by 22.6% in 1700‚comparable to Europe’s share of 23.3.%‚ to a low of 3.8% in 1952. Jawaharlal
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to enter the country through a joint venture so that it could learn about the market through its partner‚ which had operated in the market for several years. Also‚ by the time Tesco entered China‚ other multinational retailers like Wal-Mart and Carrefour were already well-established in the market. The case discusses how Tesco faced the challenges in an emerging market like China by adopting strategies to suit that market. The case ends with a discussion on the challenges that Tesco faces in the
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the aim of the present study is to work out a high-level plan of successful localization strategies. By analyzing the status quo of Chinese retail market and the current situation of transnational retailers in China (including the case study of Carrefour)‚ this paper explores how consumer behavior‚ culture and government roles can affect the localization strategy and creates a list of formats for successful localization strategies. The paper proceeds in four sections. First‚ the concept of retailing
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Firstly‚ the sharp appreciation of US dollar in mid-1995 affected the export competitiveness of ASEAN countries (Hu & Kasa 1998; Radelet & Sachs 1998; Glick 1998). Partly because US market was the most important market for exports‚ the ‘export-depended’ ASEAN countries pegged their currencies to the US dollar. This pegged system worked well before 1995 as dollar fell against yen and was weak. However‚ since the second half of 1995‚ dollar began recovering against yen and other currencies. For illustration
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Critique 1: Group work Initial Presentation Company chosen: CARREFOUR’s Failure in Japan The presentation begins with telling the viewers what her team will be discussing throughout the presentation in the order as per heading suggest (Carrefour- The world’s second largest food retailer with 10000plus stores worldwide and opens in Japan in 2000). This gives a sense of scale‚ time and highlights the sheer size of the company. This is done briefly but is essential as it then proceed straight
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com/about_6722357_iso-22000-standards.html New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade. (2013). What is the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement?. Retrieved from http://www.asean.fta.govt.nz/what-is-the-asean-fta/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade. (2009). Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area. Retrieved from http://www.mfat.govt.nz/downloads/trade-agreement/ASEAN/aanzfta-guide-booklet.pdf William Reed Business Media. (2012). Fonterra goes ‘local’ in Indonesia for swift market
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A. Do you expect further enlargement of NAFTA‚ ASEAN‚ and the EU? Why? Yes‚ I expect further enlargement of all three organizations because of the positive effects they have had. NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement. It is a signed agreement by the governments of the US‚ Canada and Mexico creating a trade agreement in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1‚ 1994 and its goal was to eliminate the barriers of trade and investment between the USA‚ Canada and Mexico
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currency union in Asia since the countries of the European Union (EU) decided to introduce a single currency for Europe. Most of the studies have been to identify the relationships between the existing economic integrations as NAFTA and EU and the ASEAN. The objective of this paper is to summarize proposed future evolution of Asian currency arrangements and examine it theoretically and empirically from a broad perspective. I believe that this kind of study will be indispensable for enhancing current
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