towards standards harmonisation in the ASEAN priority sectors of integration and in bringing about regulatory convergence …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 …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the success of progressive services liberalization under the ASEAN China FTA … this analysis to the other ASEAN+1 FTA and RCEP negotiations, as well as the need to address GATS-minus commitments found …

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 ASEAN region. The information was summarized in a companion paper (Dee 2009), which also laid out concrete proposals … for achieving the liberalization targets for these sectors from the ASEAN Economic Blueprint. The four key services are … services), banking services and insurance services. The medical and health sectors are priority sectors under the ASEAN …

developing countries such as China and the ASEAN countries. The SEZ can be defined as a specific geographical region with …." The first two types are based on the experience of forerunning ASEAN countries and the latter two are based on the …