ASEAN - India Connectivity: The Comprehensive Asia Development Plan, Phase II

Edited by Fukunari Kimura and So Umezaki

ABSTRACT

Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) submitted the Comprehensive Asia Development Plan (CADP) to the 5th East Asia Summit in October 2010, as a grand spatial design for infrastructure development in East Asia. The conceptual framework of the CADP, which was elaborated based on new waves of international trade theory namely the fragmentation theory and new economic geography, demonstrated how the region can pursue deepening economic integration as well as narrowing development gaps. This claim was supported by simulation analyses on the impacts of logistic enhancement to the region using the Geographical Simulation Model (GSM). CADP also provided a long list of prospective infrastructure projects which would be important to realize the policy recommendation of the CADP.

LIST OF PROJECT MEMBERS

FUKUNARI KIMURA (PROJECT LEADER)

Chief Economist; Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, Indonesia

SO UMEZAKI (PROJECT COORDINATOR)

Senior Research Fellow; Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), Singapore

TOSHIHIRO KUDO

Director; Economic Integration Studies Group, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), Chiba

AYAKO OBASHI

University of Wisconsin-Madison's

�INDIA STUDY TEAM

PRABIR DE (TEAM LEADER)

Fellow; Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India

GURUDAS DAS

Associate Professor; National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, India

ANINDITA CHAKRABARTI

Associate Professor; Madras School of Economics (MSE), Chennai, India

SUBASH S

Assistant Professor; Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India
  
SANJEEV MOHOLKAR

Lead Development Specialist; Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), India Office, New Delhi, India

�MYANMAR STUDY TEAM

KYAW MIN HTUN (TEAM LEADER)

Pro-Rector; Yangon Institute of Economics (YIE), Yangon, Myanmar

NU NU LWIN

Lecturer; Department of Management Studies, Yangon Institute of Economics (YIE), Yangon, Myanmar

TIN HTOO NAING

Visiting Lecturer; Executive Master of Development Studies, Yangon Institute of Economics (YIE), Yangon, Myanmar

KHINE TUN

National Consultant; United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Yangon, Myanmar

�THAILAND STUDY TEAM

RUTH BANOMYONG (TEAM LEADER)

Associate Professor; Centre for Logistic Research, Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

PAITOON VARADEJSATITWONG

Researcher; Centre for Logistic Research, Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

NUANNALIN PHANJAN

Research Associate; Centre for Logistic Research, Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

�IDE/ERIAGSMTEAM

SATORU KUMAGAI (TEAM LEADER)

Director; Economic Integration Studies Group, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), Chiba, Japan

IKUMO ISONO

Economist; Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, Indonesia