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

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The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional research centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The Institute’s research programmes are the Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). ISEAS Publishing, an established academic press, has issued more than 2,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast Asia from within the region. ISEAS Publishing works with many other academic and trade publishers and distributors to disseminate important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. First published in Singapore in 2012 by ISEAS Publishing Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Pasir Panjang Singapore 119614 E-mail: publish@iseas.edu.sg Website: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.© 2012 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore The responsibility for facts and opinions in this publication rests exclusively with the authors and their interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy of the publisher or its supporters. ISEAS Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Achieving the ASEAN economic community 2015 : Challenges for member countries and businesses / edited by Sanchita Basu Das. Based on papers presented to an ASEAN Roundtable on 29 April 2010 and experts’ discussions at the “Brainstorming Session on Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 2015 : Challenges for Member Countries and Businesses” on 23 September 2010, in Singapore 1. Southeast Asia—Economic integration—Congresses. 2. Business enterprises—Southeast Asia—Congresses. 3. Regionalism—Southeast Asia—Congresses. 4. ASEAN—Congresses. I. Basu Das, Sanchita. II. ASEAN Roundtable (2010 : Singapore) III. Brainstorming Session on Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 2015 : Challenges for Member Countries and Businesses (2010 : Singapore) HC441 A17 2012 ISBN 978-981-4379-64-9 (soft cover) ISBN 978-981-4379-65-6 (e-book, PDF) Typeset by International Typesetters Pte Ltd Printed in Singapore by Photoplates Pte Ltd ...