Realizing an ASEAN Economic Community: Progress and Remaining Challenges
Menon, Jayant; Melendez, Anna Cassandra | May 2015
Abstract
Launched as a political bloc and security pact in the aftermath of the Viet Nam War, the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has evolved to embrace an ambitious economic agenda. Its latest project
is to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 31 December 2015. Fulfilling these commitments
would promote predictability in ASEAN, as well as strengthen its credibility. But is ASEAN likely to meet
this deadline? This paper finds that although ASEAN has come a long way towards realizing the AEC, the
remaining challenges suggest that the deadline will be missed.
Citation
Menon, Jayant; Melendez, Anna Cassandra. 2015. Realizing an ASEAN Economic Community: Progress and Remaining Challenges. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/4381. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
2313-6537 (Print), 2313-6545 (e-ISSN)
Keywords
Economic Development
Economic Indicators
Economic integration
Development Analysis
Strategic planning
Development Strategy
Economics
Economic evaluation
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