ASEAN Integration Monitoring Report

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a community of more than 600 million people living in ten countries in one of the most dynamic regions of the world. Consistent with this, ASEAN's share of world GDP and world trade has sharply increased over the past decades. In 2003, ASEAN's regional integration agenda was significantly deepened when ASEAN Member States adopted the ambitious goal of forming an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. These goals were crystallized in the highly specific targets set for creating a 'single market and production base' in the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint of 2007, signed by the Heads of the Governments of the ASEAN countries. The focus of the report is on policy and market integration outcomes achieved in ASEAN Member States (AMS) as part of the Pillar One of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) formation process. The aim is to assess progress drawing on evidence from a large range of indicators on policies and outcomes. The report then suggests priorities for future actions for implementing the AEC 2015 goals. This report is based on the inception report presented to and endorsed by the Senior Economic Officials' Meetings of the ASEAN last year and on the presentation on early findings also to the SEOM. The earlier version of this report was also presented to the 45th ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meetings in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam in August 2013. This report is intended to complement the recent mid-term review report by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA, 2012), which has focused more on progress with agreements and commitments for achieving AEC 2015 goals.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	ASEAN Secretariat, World Bank
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	en_US
Published:	Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat and the World Bank 2013
Subjects:	advanced economies, aggregate trade, Agreement on Trade, Agricultural Products, Agriculture, audits, barrier, barriers to trade, benchmark, Benchmarking, Bilateral Trade, business environment, Capacity Building, Central Bank, Common Market, communication technology, Communications Technology, comparative advantage, competitive markets, competitiveness, Connectivity, Connectivity Index, consumer protection, consumers, cost of capital, cost reductions, currency, Customs, customs unions, data availability, debts, developed countries, developing economies, domestic demand, Economic Cooperation, economic crisis, economic development, economic integration, Economic Research, economic structures, elimination of tariffs, exchange rate, exchange rate system, exchange rates, export diversification, export licensing, export markets, export opportunities, Export Performance, Export Products, export quotas, Export Restrictions, export taxes, exporters, exports, external tariffs, external trade, final goods, financial crisis, Financial Services, Financial Services Liberalization, financial stability, flow of capital, foreign direct investment, foreign exchange, foreign firm, Foreign Investment, foreign investments, foreign investors, foreign suppliers, foreign trade, free movement of goods, Free Trade, Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Area, GDP, General Agreement on Trade in Services, general equilibrium, global economy, global integration, Global Investment, global markets, Global Trade, global trading, good governance, Governance Indicators, growth rate, growth rates, harmonization, human capital, Import Duties, Import Licensing, Import Licensing Procedures, Imports, income, incomes, Industry Trade, information services, information technology, intermediate goods, international agreement, international markets, international standard, international standards, International Trade, International Trade Commission, international transport, investment flows, Investment Liberalization, investment policies, investment treaties, labor markets, legal framework, less developed countries, less developed economies, liberalizations, macroeconomic management, Market Access, market integration, market size, measure of trade, most favored nation, multilateral agreements, mutual recognition, mutual recognition arrangements, natural resources, Non-Tariff Barriers, open regionalism, output, outputs, Outsourcing, preferential basis, Preferential Margins, Preferential Tariff, Preferential Tariffs, preferential treatment, Price Increases, productivity, productivity growth, protection measures, rapid growth, red tape, reduction of barriers, Regional Integration, regional trade, regulators, Regulatory barriers, regulatory environment, Regulatory Regime, Rules of Origin, security concerns, single market, skill shortages, skilled labor, skilled workers, Tariff Barriers, tariff elimination, Tariff Lines, tariff protection, tariff reduction, tariff reductions, tariff reform, tax, tax exemptions, technical assistance, technical regulations, Telecommunications, tourism, tradable goods, Trade Agreement, Trade Alert, trade areas, trade barriers, trade costs, trade creating, trade creation, trade data, trade diversion, trade facilitation, trade flows, trade in goods, trade in services, Trade Indicators, Trade Integration, Trade Intensity, trade liberalization, trade liberalization commitments, trade logistics, trade negotiations, Trade Openness, trade patterns, Trade Policies, Trade Policy, Trade Policy Review, trade regime, trade remedy, trade remedy measures, Trade Restrictions, trading system, transaction costs, Transnational Corporations, transparency, transport costs, Wages, World Development Indicators, world economy, world trade, World Trade Organization, WTO,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16695
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