Table of Contents

• Preliminary pages
• 1. Overview, by Rodolfo C Severino, Jayant Menon
• 2. Non-Tariff Barriers: A Challenge to Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community, by Myrna S Austria
• 3. ASEAN Trade in Services, by Deunden Nikomborirak, Supunnavadee Jitdumrong
• 4. The ASEAN Economic Community: The Investment Climate , by Manu Bhaskaran
• 5. Competition and Intellectual Property Laws in the ASEAN 'Single Market', by Ashish Lall, R Ian McEwin
• 6. Subregional Zones and ASEAN Economic Community, by Richard Pomfret, Sanchita Basu Das
• 7. ASEAN FTAs: State of Play and Outlook for ASEAN's Regional and Global Integration, by Razeen Sally
• 8. The ASEAN Dispute Settlement System, by Locknie Hsu
• 9. Enhancing the Institutional Framework for AEC Implementation: Designing Institutions that are Effective and Politically Feasible, by Helen E S Nesadurai
• 10. ASEAN Economic Community Business Survey, by Albert G Hu
• Index

About the Author

Sanchita Basu Das is an ISEAS Fellow and Lead Researcher (Economic Affairs) at the ASEAN Studies Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.

Jayant Menon is the Lead Economist at the Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian Development Bank.

Rodolfo C. Severino is Head of the ASEAN Studies Center, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS).

Omkar Lal Shrestha was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, and an officer at the Asian Development Bank.