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

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 …

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 …

The findings show that the incidence of non tariff measures (NTMs) in ASEAN is moderate in comparison with other …

avoid exposure to a variety of disasters. Indeed, Asia, particularly the area of the ASEAN Member States (AMSs), is the most … prone region to disasters in the world. The paper examines the experience of ASEAN and other countries and regions in the … recommendations for the way forward for strengthened disaster management in AMSs and ASEAN beyond 2015. Particularly, we will …

In November 2012, the leaders of the ASEAN+6 countries agreed to launch a new FTA negotiation called the "Regional … Comprehensive Economic Partnership" (RCEP). In this paper, we conduct stocktaking studies of ASEAN's own FTA and five existing FTAs … with 6 dialogue partner countries, to identify the possible benefits and challenges of RCEP. We find that the five "ASEAN+1 …

property rights (IPRs) in ASEAN. Typologies of taxonomies and trajectories were used to evolve a policy framework to coordinate … the relationship between macroinstitutions, meso-organizations and micro-agents (firms) for ASEAN members upgrade to … transform from developing nations to join Singapore as developed nations. Recognizing the varying capacities of ASEAN members …