The Global South continues to face new threats and challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. debate over health economy often leaves one aspect out of equation: education. Especially in Southeast Asia, where regional domestic disparity still lingers. Association Asia Nations (ASEAN) acknowledged that development gap remained most crucial issues region. Using Wæver Buzan’s securitization theory...

It has almost been a rule, whenever ASEAN Leaders gather in the resort town of Bali, Indonesia, there will be a major development to the regional organisation to watch out for. This year, the 19th ASEAN Summit will be held in Bali again. The clues for the hype this year are well reflected in Indonesia’s Chairmanship theme for ASEAN this year “ASEAN Community in a Global Community of Nations”, w...

This paper presents a performance assessment of 88 Association of Southeast Asian Nations banks from 2010 to 2013, using an integrated three-stage approach on financial criteria that emulates the CAMELS rating system. More precisely, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process is used first to assess the relative weights of a number of criteria related to capital adequacy (C), asset quality (A), managemen...

Abstract As an economic bloc, the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) aims to leverage usage e-commerce for benefits all: government, enterprises, and citizens its member countries. However, each country varies greatly in terms development cultural factors, which explains uneven level adoption region. This paper seeks provide empirical evidence by integrating individual country-level ...

The Asian financial crisis in 1997 brought to the attention of member countries of the Association of South East Asian Countries (ASEAN-5) (comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) the need for closer monetary co-operation. Central to the OCA literature is the nature and symmetry of underlying economic disturbances. If the economic disturbances are similar across...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is an attractive tourist destination with diverse and unique experiences, in which Vietnam considered one the most famous destinations this region. Quality evaluations strategies for attracting international tourists are being thoroughly researched. However, COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impact on tourism industry, suffered greatly. The...