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ERIA Annual Report 2016

Asia, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2017-06-30)

The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) is an international organisation providing support to the Chair of the ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit through policy research focusing on three pillars: deepening economic integration, narrowing development gaps, and achieving sustainable development in the region. Its establishment WJS formally agreed among 16 heads of government ...

Climate Change, Energy and Asian Geopolitics

Umbach, Frank (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2017-06-14)

President Trump’s declaration to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change may contribute to a self-isolation and a geopolitical weakening of the US. While China has cleverly used this opportunity, its energy-climate policies are much more ambivalent than its impressive investments into renewable energy resources suggest.

Malaysia’s Priority is to Manage, not Stop, China’s Investments

Jan, Wan Saiful Wan (ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2017-07-03)

Eyebrows were raised when a Hong Kong-based newspaper recently claimed that Mainland Chinese are migrating to Malaysia “by the thousands”. 1 The report stated that in 2016 alone, more than 1,000 Mainland Chinese had utilised the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme to migrate there. Between 2002 to 2016, a total of 31,732 applications for MM2H were approved, and 7,967 of these were from the ...

New Zealand fuel market financial performance study

Meade, Richard; Moore, Russell; Wilson, Peter (New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, 2017-05-29)

Our study addresses three questions: 1. Are retail fuel prices reasonable? 2. What factors could explain regional differences in those prices? 3. Is there evidence of cross-subsidisation between products and markets? One of the key focuses of the study was to determine if retail prices were reasonable by assessing a market Return on Average Capital Employed (ROACE) and comparing this market return ...