The efforts to come up with the first Lao PDR National Energy Statistics were challenging as the expert team from the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM), and other related ministries and agencies pulled all their existing data on the Lao PDR and combined them with the energy consumption survey data to arrive at a meaningful national ...

While Japan has the highest percentage of elderly citizens in the world, its dependence on foreign care workers has been negligible compared to other countries facing a similar issue. In recent years, the country has implemented several foreign care worker schemes set to alleviate the worsening shortage. In this report, we focus on the student pathway for foreign care workers (kaigoryugaku) that is ...

ASEAN has come a long way since its birth on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand. ASEAN has grown into a vibrant and increasingly integrated economic region, an increasingly stronger socio-cultural community, and a significant force in East Asia’s regional political–security and economic relations. On the 50th anniversary of ASEAN, the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and ...

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has been radically altering our society. Economic activities using tools of the Internet or new information and communications technology (ICT) to purchase goods or services or conduct business online are rapidly expanding. Global cross-border e-commerce has become increasingly important in the international economy. Various factors have laid a solid foundation for ...

The objective of the study is to (i) review the past and present innovation policies of the more developed countries of ASEAN and East Asia – China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam – and present them with reasonable future innovation policies; (ii) analyse successful and failed national innovation systems (NIS) using country case studies and empirical data, ...

The SME Policy Index is a benchmarking tool for emerging economies to monitor and evaluate progress in policies that support small and medium-sized enterprises. The ASEAN SME Policy Index 2018 is a joint effort between the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East-Asia (ERIA), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small ...

Over the course of ASEAN’s 50 years of existence, the ASEAN region has been transformed from a relatively poor region in the 1960s into a robustly growing region of middle-income to high-income countries. The ASEAN Member States (AMSs) have transitioned from being largely exporters of primary products into regional and global exporters of commodities, manufactures, and services. The region has ...

Space and geospatial technology (SGT) is an intelligence technology that enables the global monitoring of a wide range of parameters such as the distribution of facilities and buildings; the movements of cars, ships, aircraft, and people; environmental change; or post-disaster economic development processes. While geospatial technology was originally developed for military and security use, it has ...

This volume is part of the commemorative publication, ASEAN@50: Retrospectives and Perspectives on the Making, Substance, Significance, and Future of ASEAN. Volume 4 provides insights, perspectives, and reflections of eminent persons and experts on issues of significance to the success of building the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Political–Security Community (APSC) and the ASEAN ...

The year 2017 marks 50 years since the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed under the Bangkok Declaration on 8 August 1967. The five founding members, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, envisioned political and economic cooperation that would promote stability and prosperity for each country and ultimately a sense of shared culture and identity for ...