Evaluating economic integration in ASEAN: perspectives from a cluster analysis

Maria Estela Varua, Arlene Garces-Ozanne and Rachel Benic
Additional contact information
Rachel Benic: Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand

Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 2010, vol. 17, issue 2, 43-63

Abstract: This paper uses hierarchical cluster analysis to examine the degree of economic integration among member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and Japan, China and the Republic of Korea during three time periods: 1969-1984, 1985-1994 and 1995-2009. The results indicate that the five founding members of ASEAN, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, have become less integrated over time. Moreover, the region as a whole does not appear to have attained the degree of integration that was hoped for at the time the Association was established 30 years ago.

Keywords: ASEAN; economic integration; cluster analysis; Japan; China; Republic of Korea; Asian economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/apdj-17 ... ces-Ozanne_Benic.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unt:jnapdj:v:17:y:2010:i:2:p:43-63

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Asia-Pacific Development Journal from United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division, ESCAP ().