Title: Assessing competitiveness of ASEAN-10 economies

Authors: Khee Giap Tan; Kong Yam Tan

Addresses: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Oei Tiong Ham Building, 469C Bukit Timah Road, 259772, Singapore ' Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Oei Tiong Ham Building, 469C Bukit Timah Road, 259772, Singapore; Division of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Drive, 637332, Singapore

Abstract: This paper develops a new competitiveness index that ranks the ASEAN-10 economies on various dimensions measuring competitiveness. Our notion of competitiveness is substantially more nuanced and holistic than that of the more traditional and popular competitiveness indices in the literature. The aim of this so-called Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) index is to help policy makers in each member country to inform and assess their own status in terms of competitiveness as well as identify the gaps that they need to attend to benefit from regional integration.

Keywords: regional integration; ASEAN-10 economies; competitiveness indicies; Asia Competitiveness Institute; ACI index; policy makers; competitiveness gaps; competitiveness assessment; performance measurement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEBR.2014.065509

International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2014 Vol.8 No.4, pp.377 - 398

Received: 18 Sep 2013
Accepted: 07 Nov 2013

Published online: 31 Oct 2014 *

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