ASEAN Economic Community 2025

ASEAN economic integration

While calling to mind a broken record, the constant extolling of the ASEAN economic framework by external parties is warranted. The establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 has opened up numerous business opportunities for the regional community with its vision of ASEAN as a single market and production hub characterised by the free flow of goods, services, and investments, as well as a more liberal movement of capital and skills.

9 May 2018
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Realising ASEAN’s economic ambitions

Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will head to the island republic of Singapore at the end of this month for the 32nd ASEAN Summit and a sempiternal item on the agenda is economic integration. The term is often thrown about without much thought at such meetings but by its very nature, integrating 10 economies of varying shapes and sizes is a monumental task.

17 April 2018
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Economic integration, the ASEAN way

Regional integration will be one of the top priorities for Singapore as it assumes the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2018.Singapore's ASEAN 2018 chairmanship aspirationsThe term “integration” is often thrown around in ASEAN summits and meetings – peppered into speeches made by ASEAN leaders. However, “integration” itself, while easily used to demonstrate an aspiration for a greater regional cohesiveness, is not an easy feat to achieve.

28 November 2017
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