Abstract:
The Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) was established in August 2006 as a Research Centre at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS). It aims to build the intellectual leadership and network for understanding and developing competitiveness in the Asia region. ACI seeks to contribute to the enhancement of inclusive growth, living standards, and institutional governance through competitiveness research on sub-national economies in Asia. It identifies mitigating issues and challenges for potential public policy interventions through close collaboration with regional governments, business corporations, policy think-tanks, and academics. ACI’s three key research pillars include (I) Sub-national economies level competitiveness analysis and city-level liveability analysis; (II) Firm-level competitiveness analysis in 16 Asia economies; and (III) Singapore’s long-term growth strategies and public policy analysis.
ACI’s value propositions may be encapsulated in its acronym:
Analytical inputs to initiate policies for policy-makers and business leaders in Asia Capacity building to enable others through improvement in productivity and efficiency Intellectual leadership to create pragmatic models of competitiveness and inclusive growth
The institute’s core research competencies can also be encapsulated in this acronym describing our evidence- based assessments conducted on public policies for ASEAN in the context of the rise of China and India.