ASEAN economies have long recognized the importance of developing a deep and broad domestic debt securities market to … to be desired. Among the five ASEAN member countries, Singapore's debt market is moving ahead of the rest, while those of … the Philippines and Indonesia lag far behind. The paper has identified some tasks that ASEAN economies must do to …

The paper discusses the ASEAN + 3 integration in the context of the literature on hub-and-spoke regionalism. It argues … that, provided proper rules of origin are incorporated, the different bilateral arrangements between ASEAN countries and … arrangements skirt the slow decision process which marks the 'ASEAN way' and create some sort of 'coalition of the willing' that …

agriculture trade flows in the case of ASEAN. It finds that while the tariff reduction on all goods, including agriculture, in … ASEAN provides a marked advantage from the MFN tariff rates, intra-ASEAN agriculture trade have not been all that … significant. Most of the growth in the intra-ASEAN trade had come from trade in industry; and if total agriculture trade had …

implementation under regional arrangements, particularly the APEC and the ASEAN. Implementing competition policy is a big challenge … approaches to competition. In the ASEAN, difficulties in the development of competition policy are encountered due to the lack of …

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has, from the point of view of the big powers, become an important …