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Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia

52 (3) 2018 129 – 141

Convergence Clubs of Economic Liberalization in ASEAN, China, and India
Kelab Penumpuan Liberalisasi Ekonomi di ASEAN, China dan India

Faculty of Economics and Business
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
94300, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak.
MALAYSIA

arrossazana@unimas.my

Department of Development Studies
Faculty of Economics and Administration
Universiti Malaya
Jalan Universiti, 50603, Kuala Lumpur.
MALAYSIA

soniakumari@um.edu.my

Faculty of Economics and Management
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600, Bangi, Selangor.
MALAYSIA

norghani@ukm.edu.my

Faculty of Economics and Business
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
94300, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak.
MALAYSIA

amdaffizah@unimas.my

Abstract

The emergence of China and India as major international forces alongside ASEAN has triggered interest in strengthening the economic ties between these countries; hence, this serves as the motivation for this study to embark upon an analysis on economic liberalization and its link to economic growth. The present study also aims to examine the possibility of convergence clubs to exist between ASEAN, China, and India. The pooled mean group (PMG) estimator approach was employed to assess the dynamic effects of economic liberalization, while Phillips and Sul methodology was used to assess the economic possibility of convergence clubs. The empirical evidence supports the positive nexus between economic liberalization and economic growth of ASEAN, China and India for the 1988 to 2014 period. The results also
offered support to the hypothesis that not all countries converge to a single equilibrium state, and the results of Philips and Sul’s method revealed the existence of three convergence clubs. The first club consists of Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, the second club is represented by Thailand, China, and Indonesia, while the third group comprises of the Philippines, India, Vietnam, Lao PDR, and Myanmar. Interestingly, Malaysia was found to be the only outlier among the selected countries under study.

Keywords

ASEAN; Convergence Club; economic growth; Liberalization

Author’s Acknowledgement

This work was supported by Ministry of Higher Education and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak [grant numbers F01/FRGS/1607/2017].

http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/JEM-2018-5203-10
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Ab-Rahim, , Selvarajan, , Md Noor, , & Affizzah Awang Marikan, (2018). Convergence Clubs of Economic Liberalization in ASEAN, China, and India. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 52(3), 129–141. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/JEM-2018-5203-10

@article{abrahim2018convergence,
  title={Convergence Clubs of Economic Liberalization in ASEAN, China, and India},
  author={Ab-Rahim, Rossazana and Selvarajan, Sonia Kumari and Md Noor, Nor Ghani and Affizzah Awang Marikan, Dayang},
  journal={Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia},
  volume={52},
  number={3},
  pages={129—141},
 

year={2018},
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