Technical Reports - Cross Cutting Issues
INFOGRAPHICS: ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework (ACRF)
These series of infographics highlights the background and content of the ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework (ACRF), which was adopted at the 37th ASEAN Summit in November 2020.
read moreFeasibility Study of ASEAN Trust Mark Scheme: Final Study Report (2022)
This Study assessed the costs and benefits of an ASEAN Trust Mark Scheme and provide an understanding of existing national trust mark mechanisms within ASEAN. It also provided policy recommendations for operationalising the Scheme.
read moreConsolidated Strategy on the Fourth Industrial Revolution for ASEAN
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is reshaping economies and societies around the globe. The opportunities arising from its evolution in ASEAN are limitless. The Consolidated Strategy on the 4IR for ASEAN aims to provide policy guidance in building the ASEAN Digital Community, which will allow ASEAN to benefit from these opportunities.
read moreWork Plan on the Implementation of ASEAN Agreement on Electronic Commerce
This Work Plan for the Implementation of the ASEAN Agreement on Electronic Commerce outlines steps to be taken across the region over a five-year period to ensure continuing expansion of ASEAN’s digital resilience and support future growth opportunities for Southeast Asia.
read moreInitiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan III
The Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI), launched in 2000, helps ASEAN’s newer Member States implement ASEAN commitments and agreements. Through special assistance to Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV countries), it aims to further regional integration in order to narrow the development gap within ASEAN.
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Mid-Term Review of the Implementation of the IAI Work Plan II for Equitable Economic Development and Narrowing the Development Gap (2014)
Responding to the “The Phnom Penh Agenda 2012” which called for a comprehensive Mid-term Review (MTR) of the IAI Work Plan II, this study has been commissioned to stock-take the implementation of the IAI Work Plan II; map the Work Plan with other sub-regional, multilateral and trilateral development projects/programs; set out concrete and practical measures to expedite the implementation of Work Plan II; and recommend its future direction. The review was timely and important for the future direction of the IAI.
read moreNarrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN: Drivers and Policy Options (2013)
Due to improvements in conceptualising and measuring well-being, including through the use of multidimensional indicators, this book gives policy makers and scholars in development economics, development policy and Asian studies well-grounded insights into the nature of the development gaps within and between ASEAN countries as well as high-level policy advice on those interventions that can contribute to a narrowing of the development gap.
read moreFirst ASEAN Regulatory Reform Symposium, Makati City Philippines, July 2012
The symposium was undertaken as part of a large project focused on the potential to develop an ASEAN-level regulatory reform program. It follows the first ASEAN dialogue on regulatory reform, which was held in 2011 and focused on sharing member country experiences of reform initiatives. It was determined at the time of the initial dialogue that an important focus of this symposium should be on reform activity in the logistics and supply chain connectivity sector. This reflects, in large part, the strongly export-oriented nature of many ASEAN member countries’ economies.
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