"With a population of about six hundred million people, and a combined GNP of more than US$ 2.4 trillion, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is set to become the seventh largest economy in the world. Launched in December 2015, the AEC unveiled initiatives to create a single market and production...

Economic interests and the ASEAN Economic Community / Tham Siew Yean and Sanchita Basu Das -- ASEAN economic cooperation and its political realities / Rodolfo C. Severino and Moe Thuzar -- Indonesia's implementation of facilitation and harmonization measures under the AEC / Yose Rizal Damuri --...

The ten Southeast Asian economies reached a milestone on 31 December 2015, when they announced the formation of an ASEAN Community. Although this includes three pillars – ASEAN Political-Security Community, ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community – it is the...