Development in Southeast Asia's lagging regions

Budy Resosudarmo, Acram Latiph, Saran Sarntisart and Isra Sarntisart

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

Abstract: This paper focuses on the three lagging Southeast Asia's regions, namely the three Southern border provinces of Thailand, Mindanao in the Philippines and Papua in Indonesia. It aims to analyze and identify successful national and regional policies in these lagging regions. In particular, it will assess and compare the effectiveness of implementing higher fiscal transfers, local empowerment policies as well as regional autonomy strategies in these regions. The general conclusion of this paper is that providing a large amount of development funding and granting autonomous authority for these lagging regions is most likely required to enable these regions keep up with the development of other areas in their countries. Appropriate affirmative action policies are then needed to help solve the more detailed problems, such as urban-rural development and the gaps between the local and immigrant communities.

Keywords: development economics; lagging regions; regional autonomy; and fiscal policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O21 O23 O38 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-sea and nep-ure
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