This pre-feasibility study develops a practical and implementable program to develop the Sarawak (Malaysia)–West Kalimantan (Indonesia) border area (within a broad geographic context), based on specific industry value chains. It identifies concrete and high-impact projects that will advance implementation of an integrated border area development program for West Kalimantan. It maps the optimal configuration of Sarawak–West Kalimantan cross-border trade and investment in goods and services; and, concurrently, provides the design of a border area development plan for the two territories. As a pre-feasibility study, we examine a wide range of industry options and determine which projects are economically viable within the socioeconomic, institutional, and political context of Sarawak and West Kalimantan. We follow the same analytical approach as that for the pilot project study of North Kalimantan and Sabah, which serves as a high-profile demonstration pre-feasibility study for this and other border area development programs.

This study examines potential investment opportunities for cross-border value chains in the economic corridors of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA).

It offers an investment perspective that is grounded on extensive interviews with company representatives and public sector officials. Qualitative and quantitative-based surveys were conducted over a six-week period by the study team that interviewed 70 companies distributed over 20 industry classifications or divisions in six BIMP-EAGA corridor states and provinces. The surveys were carried out through one-on-one interviews with company representatives and the results were used to rate not only investment opportunities in different industries, but also soft and hard infrastructural conditions that affect the investment climate.

Trade strategy support in Maldives for the preparation of Loan Program for Small and Medium Size Enterprise (SME) through greater access to credit, expanded business development services, and a strengthened legal and institutional framework for enterprise development.

In Brunei-Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines - East Asean Growth Area. Vol. II. Manila: Asian Development Bank, 1997.

Co-authored with Walter C. Labys. In Applied Economics, 1991

Session Discussant: "Primary Commodity Prices: Economic Models and Economic Policy." Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 16-17 March 1989

In 'Natural Resources in Latin America'. Special Report in Economic and Social Progress in Latin America. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 1983

Presented at Seminar on Optimal Commercial Policies, Institute for the Integration of Latin America, 22-24 June 1981