Asia Competitiveness Institute
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The Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) 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 Asian economies, and (iii) Singapore’s long-term growth strategies and public policy analysis.

  1. Understanding Sub-National Economies in Asia
    1. Macro level annual update of competitiveness ranking, simulation studies and income growth analysis for well over 100 sub-national economies in Asia including 34 Greater China economies, 34 provinces of Indonesia, 36 states and federal territories of India and ten Association of South East Asian Nations.
    2. City-based studies on liveability and intelligent cities with special focus on urban migration and urbanisation policies.
  2. Analysing Competitiveness at the Firm-Level
    1. Conduct company level studies on tracking productivity, monitoring efficiency and improving competitiveness for Asian companies in 16 Asian economies including China, India, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and ASEAN-10 for potential synergies between them and those from the European Union especially amongst the small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
    2. Identify shifts in global production networks within Asia and advise on opportunities for multinational corporations (MNCs) to engage in manufacturing migration and evaluate infrastructure investment and development under the “One-belt One-road” strategy initiated by China in 2013.
  3. Identifying Singapore’s Public Policies and Long-term Growth Strategies in a Global Context
    1. Re-assess Singapore’s public policies in the post-Lee Kuan Yew era which was relevant in the past, continued to be relevant today and are likely to be so in the future within the globalised context.
    2. Re-evaluate Singapore’s public policies in the post-Lee Kuan Yew era which need fine-tuning due to changes in conditions and circumstances.
    3. Formulate public policies and future growth strategies for Singapore so as to stay relevant in the post-Lee Kuan Yew era, extrapolating from new emerging trends, opportunities to be seized with challenges to be met and mastered. ACI looks at policies options over the horizon of the next two to three decades.