Three free reports on the ASEAN Economic Community, production networks and trade agreements

ASEAN Strategic is pleased to present three recent and detailed reports providing useful insights into the ASEAN Economic Community for private sector businesses and investors. Their publishers have kindly made digital versions available free-of-charge for a period of time:


ASEAN Economic Community Chartbook 2012 (Jan 2013)

Published by ASEAN Secretariat, this official publication presents a graphical overview of selected macroeconomic indicators in ASEAN relative to its trading partners. It includes more than 50 charts describing key macroeconomic trends, including economic growth, trade, investment and other indicators of economic integration. Download the report here.

Impact of the ASEAN Economic Community on ASEAN Production Networks (Feb 2013). Published by Asian Development Bank Institute, this report by Kornkarun Cheewatrakoolpong, Chayodom Sabhasri and Nath Bunditwattanawong suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia / ASEAN results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialisation and higher production costs in the home countries and institutional-led reasons such as free trade agreements. It examines two industries, autos and auto parts, and hard disk drives (HDDs), to understand international production networks. It concludes that investment promotion policies contributed more to the emergence of international production networks than free trade agreements. Download the report here.

Beyond market access - the anatomy of ASEAN’s preferential trade agreements (2013) Published by European University Institute, this study by David Kleimann seeks to enhance the understanding of ASEAN’s external preferential trade agreements (PTA) in context of the recent growth of economic regionalism in East Asia. First it compares the content of ASEAN’s plurilateral PTAs with China, Korea, Japan, India, Australia and New Zealand with the status quo of ASEAN’s internal economic integration. Secondly, it compares ASEAN’s plurilateral agreements and ASEAN’s internal integration with the content of six bilateral PTAs that individual ASEAN member states have concluded with Japan.  Download the report here.

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CIMB sponsors weekly ASEAN Report on Bloomberg Television

ASEAN Report, a weekly review of South East Asian business, finance, economics and politics, premieres today, Friday 25 January, at 10.40 am (HK/KL/SIN) on Bloomberg Television.

Exclusively sponsored by CIMB Group, it will be hosted by Bloomberg TV’s ASEAN news correspondent and anchor Haslinda Amin who has been covering the region for a decade.

“With greater collaboration and consultation across the 10 ASEAN markets to create a 600 million-strong region that is growing in global influence, Bloomberg TV believes the time is right for a dedicated ASEAN series,” says Parry Ravindranathan, Head of Bloomberg Television for Asia-Pacific. “We want to continue to be on the leading edge in covering ASEAN and this dedicated series will cast a spotlight on market-moving business and economic trends and opportunities in ASEAN’s high-growth economies.”

ASEAN Report will be broadcast every Friday as part of ‘On the Move’ a daily morning program available on Bloomberg.com, on the Bloomberg TV+ app for iPad, and the Bloomberg Professional service.

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Stock exchanges launch Invest ASEAN 2013 roadshow in Bangkok

ASEAN EXCHANGES, a group of seven South East Asian stock exchanges,  has kicked off a series of road shows aimed at promoting blue-chip firms in the region as a profitable package of assets. Membership of the Association of South East Asian Nation encompasses 10 countries with a combined population of over 600 million people. Together, they have a combined GDP of US$ 2 trillion.

Called “Invest Asean 2013,” the initiative highlights 180 companies based within ASEAN which are listed on either Bursa Malaysia, Hanoi Stock Exchange, Hochiminh Stock Exchange, Indonesia Stock Exchange, Philippine Stock Exchange, Singapore Exchange or Stock Exchange of Thailand.

Guided by the Asean Economic Community blueprint, the ASEAN Exchanges collaboration promotes the development of ASEAN as an asset class with the intention of increasing liquidity of the member exchanges. This will be achieved through creating ASEAN-centric investment products, implementing targeted promotional initiatives and streamlining access to ASEAN capital markets.

Download the official ASEAN Exchanges brochure here.

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