The Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Implications for Regional Economic Integration in ASEAN

Jayant Menon () and Anna Fink

Departmental Working Papers from The Australian National University, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper explores the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It argues that technologies of the 4IR can bring huge benefits such as empowerment for small and medium sized enterprises and opportunities for countries to leapfrog traditional pathways of development. It will also bring tremendous challenges, such as deep disruption to labor markets and the potential of rising inequality. To address the challenges and seize the opportunities of the 4IR, ASEAN will need a new way of formulating policy and regulation that will require: (i) evolution of the ASEAN Secretariat to become a “platform organization”; (ii) greater delegation of key activities to affiliated functional bodies; (iii) a shift from long-term blueprints to three year rolling plans; (iv) democratize and decentralize; and (v)establish multi-country test beds.

Keywords: Fourth Industrial Revolution, ASEAN; Digital economy; Regional economic integration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O19 O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2018
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