URBAN REGIONAL COOPERATION

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Efektivitas Regional Cooperation Agreement On Combating Piracy And Armed Robbery (Recaap) dalam Penanganan Kasus Pembajakan Kapal dan Perampokan Bersenjata di Asia Tenggara Tahun 2012-2015

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of ReCAAP in handling cases of piracy and armed robbery in Southeast Asia by 2012-2015. The author focuses on the condition of the problem and the level of collaboration in ReCAAP own.Sources of this study was obtained through journals, books, theses, reports, press releases and websites that explain ReCAAP and effectiveness associated with operations in Southeast Asia using the perspective of neorealism and Effectiveness Theory Regime.In this study, the authors found that ReCAAP operate effectively in Southeast Asia, it can be seen from the complexity of problems that are not being met, either in the capacity to solve problems and a high level of collaboration that led to changes in the behavior of members and optimal achievement of technica

An investigation of the relation between cooperation and the innovative success of German regions

Concepts like regional innovation systems, innovative milieu, and learning regions emphasize the positive contribution of intra-regional cooperation to firmsÕ innovation performance. Despite substantial numbers of case studies, the quantitative empirical evidence for this claim is thin. Using data on the co-application and co- invention of patents for 270 German labor market regions the study shows that intra- regional cooperation intensity and regional innovation efficiency are associated. In contrast to the negative influence of inter-regional cooperation, medium levels of intra-regional cooperation stimulate regional innovation efficiency.regional innovation efficiency, cooperation intensity, collaboration, regional cooperation

Regional Cooperation and Legal Protection to Indonesian Women Migrant Worker

The increasing number of Indonesian women migrant workers (IWMWs) started since 1997, and remain high after the global financial crisis in 2008. The impact for Indonesian economy is quite significant in terms of social and economy. Unemployment rate increased significantly as well as number of people living below poverty line. Social and family relations changed as women forced to work in public sectors to support family economy. Domestic job scarcity turned thousands of Indonesian women as family bread winner by working overseas. The above push factors are combines by increasing demands of IWMWs in the newly industrialized countries in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore and Malaysia. Geographic and cultural proximity also become reasons both countries are favorite destination to IMWs. As IMWs are mostly uneducated, so they left with no or little choices rather than working as domestic servant or other low income jobs known as 4D\u27s jobs (dirty, dangerous, difficult, demeaning) under poor working conditions. These marginal conditions were the result of weak bargaining position especially compared to other nationality, such as the Filipinos. Marginality also led to the emergence of the issue related to the violation of human and worker rights. To solve the problems, ASEAN countries need to cooperate and to build a solid legal system to protect IWMWs. The conflicting interests within ASEAN member countries between the receiving (Singapore, Malaysia) and sending (Indonesia, The Philippines, Thailand) have prevented the regional organization to produce binding legal products to protect its migrant workers. This research will answer questions: “what are solutions to increase IWMWs bargaining position in regional work force?” Other question would be: “How ASEAN solve regional news related migration issue”

Impact of Trade Facilitation on Export Competitiveness: a Regional Perspective

This chapter attempts to identify regional cooperation measures that support trade and transport facilitation and thereby enhance export competitiveness. This will be done by examining some experiences in Asia and the Pacific that illustrate how cooperation has developed or is developing.Asia, trade, transport, regional cooperation, facilitation

Foundations of Collective Action in Asia: Theory and Practice of Regional Cooperation

This paper argues that the collective action in Asia by its regional organizations has historically suffered from a “capability–legitimacy gap”: a disjuncture between the capability (in terms of material resources) of major Asian powers to lead regional cooperation on the one hand and their political legitimacy and will as regional leaders on the other. Successful collective action requires leadership with both capability (as suggested by rationalist theories) and legitimacy (as suggested by constructivist approaches). A central point of the paper is that the putative or aspiring leaders of Asian regionalism throughout the post-war period never had both.asian regionalism; regional cooperation; asian regional cooperation

Geography and Development in Africa: Overview and Implications for Regional Cooperation

Geography causes African countries to experience a ?proximity gap?. To overcome this gap a ?big push? may be needed in infrastructure. The cross-border nature of such infrastructure requires regional cooperation in at least four issues: transport infrastructure, trade facilitation, decentralization and local economic development, and migration. Because incentives for regional cooperation in these aspects may not be symmetrical, commitments made may not be credible. Therefore, transport infrastructure at least should be bound in WTO rules on trade facilitation to provide third party enforcement. Incentives for cooperation could also be improved with transport corridor design and collective peer pressure by landlocked countries. Regional cooperation could be supported by the international community with aid, the assurance of full implementation and adherence to international law on the rights of landlocked countries to access to the sea, the extension of appropriate trade preferences to African regions and ensuring consistency of international agreements and trade preferences with current regional integration initiatives.Africa, poverty gaps, proximity, geographical economics, infrastructure, regional cooperation

Regional Economic Integration in South Asia: The Way Forward

regional Cooperation, Economic Integration, South Asia

Southeast Europe: Regional Cooperation with Multiple Equilibria

It is argued in this paper that the lack of regional cooperation can be remedied by the speed up of the process of EU integration. That is reinforced by the considerations based on the theory of optimal currency areas. Though the current Stabilisation and Association process (SAP) may produce the same results though that process is riskier and requires more time.

Public Goals, Property Values, and Regional Cooperation

Do public officials care about property values? If so, are their decisions about tax rates, public spending, land use, and regional cooperation paying off? Fiscal and land use data for Connecticut’s 169 towns offer some insights about development patterns and how local public policies may affect the value of real property—structures and land. We look at the effects of municipal tax, spending and land-use policies, as well as the impact of regional cooperation—in the form of regional school districts—on the value of real property per acre of available land. Fiscal policies and the level of development have the anticipated effects on property values, but the impact of participation in regional high school districts is less clear.