ASEAN Economic Community Scorecard

ASEAN Economic Community Scorecard
Author: Sanchita Basu Das
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814414301

The official AEC scorecard is expected to track the implementation of measures and the achievement of milestones committed in the AEC Strategic Schedule. However, the scorecard, in its current form, is too brief and general to be useful for the ASEAN citizens. This book attempts to fill this gap and evaluates the current status of and the progress towards the milestones of the AEC Blueprint. The overall message of the book is that even though ASEAN may miss some of its integration goals by 31 December 2015, it will certainly deliver some of the key initiatives - tariff elimination, establishing the ASEAN Single Window, laying the foundation of the regional investment initiative, advancing tourism services, moving ahead with ASEAN connectivity and the realization of ASEAN+1 free trade agreements. AEC's goal of forming an equitable and competitive regional economy will continue to be a work in progress. AEC 2015 is going to be a historic milestone that will raise ASEAN's profile and will help the region to maintain its centrality in the international community.

The ASEAN Economic Community

The ASEAN Economic Community
Author: Sanchita Basu Das
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814519014

This is an important and timely volume: important because ASEAN is an increasingly significant and influential regional and global actor; and timely because, as the 2015 ASEAN Economic Community target approaches, what is needed is a sympathetic yet arms-length survey of the issues and challenges. ASEAN will miss some of the targets laid out in its AEC Blueprint, but the reader is left in no doubt that the ASEAN spirit is alive and well. The editors include a distinguished former Secretary General of ASEAN and the leading academic analyst of ASEAN economic cooperation. They and their co-editors are to be congratulated for soliciting contributions from an outstanding and diverse group of authors, and then adding their highly authoritative commentary and analysis. A must read for anybody seriously interested in ASEAN.

Roadmap to an ASEAN Economic Community

Roadmap to an ASEAN Economic Community
Author: Denis Hew Wei-Yen
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9812303472

At the Ninth ASEAN Summit in Bali on 7 October 2003, the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed to establish an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2020. It is envisaged that the AEC would be a single market and production base, with a free flow of goods and services, investments, capital and skilled labour. An integrated ASEAN with a sizeable market of over 500 million people could become an alternative to China as a regional production base for MNCs. Although there are roadmaps for the fast-track integration of eleven priority sectors, an overall longer-term roadmap needs to be formulated to realize the AEC. This book addresses the main issues.

ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint

ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint
Author: ASEAN Studies Centre
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9812309322

On 28 July 2008, the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Regional Economic Studies Programme, both of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung organized a roundtable on The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint. The brainstorming session gathered Southeast Asian experts from the region to discuss the AEC Blueprint, which ASEANs leaders had adopted at their summit meeting in November 2007, and the prospects of any obstacles to its implementation by the target year, 2015. The roundtable started with a progress report on the AEC Blueprint given by S. Pushpanathan, Principal Director of Economic Integration and Finance, ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta. Thereafter, the sessions examined the various aspects of the Blueprint tackling the non-tariff barriers, designing a comprehensive ASEAN Investment Agreement, a regional framework for competition policy, the role of infrastructure development in economic integration, the importance of international production networks in economic integration, etc.

ASEAN Champions

ASEAN Champions
Author: Seung Ho Park
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107129001

This book examines successful firms operating within the ASEAN Economic Community, their reasons for success, and their role in regional integration.

Indicator-Based Monitoring of Regional Economic Integration

Indicator-Based Monitoring of Regional Economic Integration
Author: Philippe De Lombaerde
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319508601

This volume brings together experts from different world regions. It presents various experiences with building indicator systems for monitoring the implementation of regional economic integration policies such as preferential trade areas, common markets or economic and monetary unions. The volume discusses both the technical and governance aspects of such systems, and best practices. The regional experiences that are covered include: the European Union, Eurasia, ASEAN, the East African Community (EAC), COMESA, CARICOM, the African-Caribbean-Pacific Group, and the Americas. In addition, various chapters discuss cross-cutting methodological challenges related to trade-related indicators.

Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 2015

Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 2015
Author: Sanchita Basu Das
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814379646

"The papers compiled in this volume were presented during the ASEAN Roundtable on 29 April 2010 and during a brainstorming session on 23 September 2010 by the ASEAN Studies Centre of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies"--Foreword.

ASEAN 2030

ASEAN 2030
Author: ADBI
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 4899740522

This book investigates long-term development issues for members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It finds that with the proper policy mix—including domestic structural reforms and bold initiatives for regional integration—ASEAN has the potential to reach by 2030 the average quality of life enjoyed today in advanced economies and to fulfill its aspirations to become a resilient, inclusive, competitive, and harmonious (RICH) region. Key challenges moving forward are to enhance macroeconomic and financial stability, support equitable growth, promote competitiveness and innovation, and protect the environment. Overcoming these challenges to build a truly borderless economic region implies eliminating remaining barriers to the flow of goods, services, and production factors; strengthening competitiveness and the institutional framework; and updating some governing principles. But ASEAN should not merely copy the European Union. It must maintain its flexibility and pragmatism without creating a bloated regional bureaucracy. The study’s main message is that through closer integration, ASEAN can form a partnership for achieving shared prosperity in the region and around the globe.

ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard Country Reports and Assessments 2019

ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard Country Reports and Assessments 2019
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9292628003

The ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard (ACGS) was revised following a holistic and comprehensive review in 2016.The revised ACGS comprises five parts based on the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development’s principles: shareholders’ rights, equitable treatment of shareholders, stakeholders’ role, disclosure and transparency, and board responsibilities. In 2019, the ACGS was applied to 582 top publicly listed companies (PLCs) in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations members Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The mean total score in PLCs of the countries increased by 12% in 2019 compared to 2017, showing improvement in corporate governance practices.

ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship

ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship
Author: Peter A. Petri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2014-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780866382465

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is strategically significant because of its size, dynamism, and role in the Asian economic and security architectures. This paper examines how ASEAN seeks to strengthen these assets through "centrality" in intraregional and external policy decisions. It recommends a two-speed approach toward centrality in order to maximize regional incomes and benefit all member economies: first, selective engagement by ASEAN members in productive external partnerships and, second, vigorous policies to share gains across the region. This strategy has solid underpinnings in the Kemp-Wan theorem on trade agreements. It would warrant, for example, a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with incomplete ASEAN membership, complemented with policies to extend gains across the region. The United States could support this framework by pursuing deep relations with some ASEAN members, while broadly assisting the region's development.