Realizing the ASEAN Economic Community : : A Comprehensive Assessment / / ed. by Michael G. Plummer, Chia Siow Yue.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aldaba, Rafaelita M.,; Chaisrisawatsuk, Santi,; Kartika, Pratiwi,; Narjoko, Dionisius,; Ongkittikul, Sumet,; Petri, Peter A.,; Pitsuwan, Surin,; Plummer, Michael G.,; Pupphavesa, Wisarn,; Rashid, Zakariah,; Sudsawasd, Sasatra,; Wicaksono, Teguh,; Yap, Josef T.,; Yue, Chia Siow,; Zhai, Fan,
• HerausgeberIn: G. Plummer, Michael,; Siow Yue, Chia,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) constitutes the most ambitious programme of economic cooperation in the developing world. Its goal is to create no less than a free flow of goods, services, foreign direct investment, and skilled labour, as well as a freer flow of capital, throughout the region. Implementing this agenda will be technically and politically difficult. Hence, understanding the potential economic "payoff" is of the essence. The goal of this book is to assess empirically the likely economic effects of the AEC on the ASEAN Member States and associated stakeholders. It mobilizes a number of techniques to do so, and finds that the likely effects will be large, even greater than the anticipated effects of the Single Market Program in Europe, for example. The AEC will help the region improve competitiveness, facilitate the creation of production networks, foster the diffusion of “best practices”, and help ASEAN project its interests more effectively in an increasingly integrated, global economy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Acknowledgements -- About the Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Regional Market for Goods, Services, and Skilled Labor -- 3. Competition Policy, Infrastructure, and Intellectual Property Rights -- 4. The AEC and Investment and Capital Flows -- 5. Narrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN -- 6. Competitiveness and Leverage -- 7. Benefits of the AEC -- References -- Appendix A. AEC Components -- Appendix B. The CGE Model -- Appendix C. Developments in Logistics and Aviation -- Appendix D. AEC Blueprint Excerpt -- Appendix E. ASEAN Free Trade Agreements -- Appendix F. ASEAN Member States’ Free Trade Agreements -- Appendix G. ASEAN Imports and Exports, 2000 and 2006 -- Index