ADB Institute: too much focus on 2015
Masahiro Kawai, dean of the Asia Development Bank Institute, believes too great a focus is being placed on the realization of the 2015 ASEAN Economic Community at the cost of considering middle- and longer-term issues in the ASEAN region. “Economic community-building is not going to be completed in 2015,” Kawai told the Post. “It’s going to continue as a process, and many other challenges will still be there. In particular, important issues are whether ASEAN would remain relevant and can maintain its centrality in Asia’s economic architecture.” At the end of this year, the Asia Development Bank Institute will launch ASEAN 2030: Toward a Borderless Economic Community. …
