Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Challenges for Member Countries and Businesses

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Contents Foreword by Rodolfo C. Severino ix Message by Phillip Overmyer xi Preface xiii Acknowledgements xix Contributors xxi List of Abbreviations xxiii 1. Introduction: State of Readiness of ASEAN Economies and 1 Businesses Sanchita Basu Das 2. ASEAN’s Readiness in Achieving the AEC 2015: Prospects 10 and Challenges S. Pushpanathan PART I: CHALLENGES FOR MEMBER COUNTRIES 3. Achieving the AEC 2015: Challenges for Brunei Darussalam 21 Lim Jock Hoi 4. Achieving the AEC 2015: Challenges for Cambodia and 37 its Businesses Chan Sophal and Larry Strange vi Contents 5. AEC 2015, Cambodia, and the Lao PDR: View from the GMS 53 Pradeep Srivastava 6. Deadline 2015: Assessing Indonesia’s Progress towards 71 the AEC Hadi Soesastro and Raymond Atje 7. Towards an Integrated AEC: Where is Malaysia? 85 Rajah Rasiah 8. Achieving the AEC 2015: Challenges for the Philippines 99 Jenny D. Balboa, Fatima Lourdes E. del Prado, and Josef T. Yap 9. ASEAN Economic Integration: Perspectives from Singapore 125 Ong Keng Yong 10. Achieving the AEC 2015: Challenges for Thailand 138 Nipon Poapongsakorn 11. Achieving an Efficient AEC by 2015: A Perspective from 161 Vietnam Vo Tri Thanh PART II: CHALLENGES FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR 12. ASEAN Economic Integration: Challenges to Brunei 181 Businesses Pushpa Thambipillai 13. Perspective of the Indonesian Business Sector on the 196 Regional Integration Process Widdi Mugijayani and Pratiwi Kartika 14. Achieving the AEC 2015: Challenges for the Malaysian 224 Private Sector Mahani Zainal Abidin, Loh Geok Mooi, and Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz Contents vii 15. Role of the Private Sector in Regional Economic 249 Integration: A View from the Philippines Maureen Ane D. Rosellon and Josef T. Yap 16. Role of the Singapore Private Sector in ASEAN Economic 274 Integration Juliana Giam 17. Thailand’s Perspective on the Role of the Private Sector in 286 the Process of Regional Integration Eggaluck Suwannakarn and Pisesporn Wasawong 18. The Private Sector’s Participation in Regional Integration: 307 A Perspective from Vietnam Vo Tri Thanh and Nguyen Anh Duong PART III: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 19. Conclusion and Recommendations for an Effective AEC 327 Sanchita Basu Das Index 335 ...