As Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) approaches end 2015, this report takes stock of the progress to date … and draws out lessons for the next stage of ASEAN's connectivity journey. The realization of an integrated ASEAN community … barriers to trade and investment; and the opening of new opportunities for ASEAN wide communication and exchange. The MPAC …

(DFS) in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries from a financial inclusion perspective. It was carried … out at the request of the ASEAN Working Committee on Financial Inclusion (WC-FINC). The analysis is based on a regulatory … survey conducted by the ASEAN WC-FINC, supplementary interviews with relevant regulatory authorities, and a literature review …

focuses on six countries in the ASEAN region, and includes one regional non-ASEAN member, China, to provide a point of …

economic development challenge across most ASEAN Member States.A healthy, well-nourished, well-educated and skillful population … digitaleconomies. However, most of ASEAN's lower-income countries face an unfinished agenda withregard to undernutrition … posing an increasing challenge to ASEAN, with some countries having high prevalence of obesity and overweight. In the last 35 …

Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), where regional integration of services markets has been linked to thriving regional supply … chains. Drawing on surveys conducted in 2008 and 2012 of applied policies in the key services sectors of ASEAN countries, the … paper assesses the impact of the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS) and the ambitious ASEAN Economic Community …