Towards
An Asian Economic Community:
Vision of a New Asia
Editor – Nagesh Kumar
Published jointly by ISEAS, Sinagpore and RIS, 2004. ISBN: 81-7122-094-0
This
book makes a case for an Asian Economic Community that would be
broader in coverage than the current programmes for economic cooperation
in the region. It argues that the community is evolving in a phased
manner with Japan, ASEAN, China, India and Korea (JACIK) providing
the initial core group that can be expanded to cover other parts
of Asia subsequently, as in Europe. The analysis presented in the
book shows that regional economic integration could act as a new
engine of growth and generate hundreds of billions of additional
output and assist Asia regain its place in the world economy that
it had until the eighteenth century. The book also examines the
emerging patterns of regional integration in JACIK region and presents
an analysis of the potential and prospects of cooperation in the
areas of trade, money and finance, technology and investments.
This book will be useful to Asian policy-makers and scholars looking
for a vision in making the 21st century an Asian century.
This
book makes a case for an Asian Economic Community that would be
broader in coverage than the current programmes for economic cooperation
in the region. It argues that the community is evolving in a phased
manner with Japan, ASEAN, China, India and Korea (JACIK) providing
the initial core group that can be expanded to cover other parts
of Asia subsequently, as in Europe. The analysis presented in the
book shows that regional economic integration could act as a new
engine of growth and generate hundreds of billions of additional
output and assist Asia regain its place in the world economy that
it had until the eighteenth century. The book also examines the
emerging patterns of regional integration in JACIK region and presents
an analysis of the potential and prospects of cooperation in the
areas of trade, money and finance, technology and investments.