Resolution, recovery and reinvention: How Australia can help Southeast Asia respond to Covid-19

Autrice : Huong Le Thu. Senior analyst at ASPI.

Production : ASPI, Autralian Strategic Policy Intitute. L’Institut australien de stratégie politique est un organisme public australien de réflexion créé en 2001. Son rôle est de développer les idées sur la défense de l’Australie et ses options stratégiques et de contribuer à informer le public sur les questions de défense et de politique stratégique.

Diffusion : revue en ligne de l’ASPI, The Strategist

Date : 20 mai 2020.

After the Covid-19 pandemic is over, we are likely to face a world in which the nations with strong foundations are stronger and the weak are further weakened. The World Bank has already predicted that 11 million additional people in East Asia and the Pacific region will fall below the poverty line, and other economic performance predictions are even more dire. In Southeast Asia, in particular, socioeconomic disparities are likely to deepen. The repercussions of Covid-19 are, in many ways, already undoing the regionalism efforts that ASEAN has been pursuing for decades.

This post is adapted by the author from her chapter in volume 1 of ASPI’s After Covid-19 series, ‘Southeast Asia’, which examines the ways in which the pandemic is exacerbating the perennial threats, challenges to governance and economic vulnerabilities in the region.

Source : Le Thu Huong, “Resolution, recovery and reinvention: How Australia can help Southeast Asia respond to Covid-19”, The Strategist, 20/05/2020. URL : https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/resolution-recovery-and-reinvention-how-australia-can-help-southeast-asia-respond-to-covid-19/ (consulté le 28/05/2020).

Photo “à la une” : Viet Nam Government Portal / Twitter.

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