Beyond Goods and Services: Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent FTAs Involving ASEAN Countries

dc.creatorDayaratna, Banda O.G.
dc.creatorWhalley, John
dc.date2017-04-01T19:36:15Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T03:46:07Z
dc.descriptionWe discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. These agreements are recent, but they are numerous and more are under negotiation. We separately synthesize and evaluate provisions in five areas; competition policy, investment, mutual recognition, movement of persons, and broader cooperation. What emerges is of a picture of ill defined general commitments and precise undertaking, which vary from element to element and country pair to country pair, but there can be little doubt as to the presence of substance, which in turn, seemingly grows in complexity and form in more recent agreements.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.24153
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/24153/files/wp050001.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/24153
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/539575
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/24153
dc.titleBeyond Goods and Services: Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent FTAs Involving ASEAN Countries
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