Collective Action Problems and Regional Integration in ASEAN

Inequality in Collective Action Problems

ASEAN integration and health services

I t seems to be an exciting moment for the ASEAN countries to enter the era of the ASEAN Community. For the ASEAN 600 million people (8.6% of the World population), this regional initiative is expected to bring about economic prosperity and development in socio-cultural well-being of the people. However, development policies do not always complement one another as we promote economic growth and...

Larger groups may alleviate collective action problems

This paper shows how larger group size can enhance punishing behavior in social dilemmas and hence support higher levels of cooperation. We focus on describing con‡ict technology using Lanchester’s equations and study the role of “collectivity”of punishment to support cooperation in large groups. The main results suggest that as long as defectors are, even slightly, less “collective”than punish...

How chimpanzees solve collective action problems.

We presented small groups of chimpanzees with two collective action situations, in which action was necessary for reward but there was a disincentive for individuals to act owing to the possibility of free-riding on the efforts of others. We found that in simpler scenarios (experiment 1) in which group size was small, there was a positive relationship between rank and action with more dominant ...

Disasters, resilience, and the ASEAN integration

T he recent havoc caused by typhoon Haiyan in central Philippines provides an example of the grim reality of the impact of disasters in the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. This is personal to me as many of my relatives and friends died and many more had their properties all washed away. You see, I was born in Tacloban and grew up in the city. It pained me to see my 87-ye...