ASEAN Economic Ministers signed the Agreement on the Movement of Natural Persons (MNP) in 2012. This is a new … establishment of an ASEAN single market and production base. The objective of this paper is to assess the benefits and limitations … visitors (seven ASEAN Member States, or AMSs), intra-corporate transferees (all the AMSs), and contractual services suppliers …

modern, comprehensive, high-quality, and mutually beneficial economic partnership agreement among the ASEAN Member States … (AMSs) and ASEAN’s FTA Partners. The RCEP initiative was announced by the ASEAN Leaders in November 2011 during the 19th … ASEAN Summit. It is believed that this ASEANled process will enable ASEAN to broaden and deepen its economic engagements …

ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The targets for competition policy in the AEC Blueprint have been largely met. Looking … beyond 2015, ASEAN needs to consider broadening the policy measures for competition policy to encompass the state’s presence … require fundamental changes in ASEAN institutions. …

Hong Kong proposed its possible accession to the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) in November 2011. This report … examines how much Hong Kong's accession to ACFTA will impact on the trade in goods between ASEAN and China. It is likely that … trade in goods between China and ASEAN. As such stock operations are generally carried out in places located near to final …

Addressing technical barriers to trade is a key priority of ASEAN as part of trade facilitation in achieving the Single … Market and Production Base under the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 and building an effective and competitive Economic … consumers should not become technical barriers to trade across the region as ASEAN liberalises its trading regime. A delicate …

The current status of trade facilitation measures including the ASEAN Single Window initiative is reviewed and assessed … enhancements for ASEAN trade facilitation are proposed. …

Financial integration challenges in ASEAN beyond 2015 can be grouped into two broad classes. The first classes of …

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is engaged in framing a post- 2015 vision for social protection in … ASEAN which would facilitate productive ageing. This paper assesses existing social protection systems in ASEAN and suggests … between ASEAN’s economic and social sector groups, as weak social protection systems existing today will increasingly …

This paper uses a disaggregated (product-level) gravity approach to estimate the effect of ASEAN’s product … system. Overall, we find that the average ad-valorem equivalent (AVE) of ASEAN’s RoO’s is 3.40 percent across all instruments …

The members of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) and its six dialogue partners--Australia, China …