THE DIMINUTION OF TARIFF OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE TOWARDS INEQUALITY ON SOUTHEAST ASIA COUNTRIES (2007-2014)

Abstract

In order to implement blueprint of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC),
Southeast Asia countries have been gradually doing the diminution tariff of
international trade since 2007. This effort has been implicating the
decreasing of each Southeast Asia countries’ GDP. Yet, this decreasing has
also been followed by the augmentation of gini coefficients of each Southeast
Asia countries during the same time periods. Therefore, hypothesis of this
research is there is significant influence between the decreasing tariff of
international trade towards the increasing of gini coefficient in the countries
of Southeast Asia. Hence, this research had been concerned to seek an
answer of how the significance of diminution of tariff of international trade
towards the augmentation of Southeast Asia countries’ gini coefficient.