Country Positions towards AEC by Marn-Heong Wong Assistant Professor

Learning Objectives To foster students’ understanding of how individual ASEAN countries respond to the goal of creating an AEC, their progress to-date on implementation and the different constraints that they face in implementing measures towards an AEC on a full and timely basis. The focus, in particular, will be on enabling students to get a good feel for the situation in their respective countries. MHW LKYSPP 2012

Suggested Key Contents Review issues and progress in AEC implementation: from the perspective of each ASEAN country covering all ten ASEAN countries or a number of ASEAN countries or just in the students’ own country. in terms of overall AEC implementation or in specific sectors and policy areas. To the extent possible, to examine the views of the different stakeholders: government, business people, consumers, workers etc. MHW LKYSPP 2012

Teaching Approach It is suggested that this sub-topic be covered with student presentations and Q&A and if possible, also with guest speakers. Student presentations  Coverage: individual country perspective; overall or specific sectors/policy areas; views of different stakeholders Students can be assigned topics or select their own Students can source their materials from current affairs (newspaper/magazine) articles, as well as other sources such as official country publications and reports from International Organizations e.g. UNESCAP, ADB, World Bank, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)). Sample note of requirements for students Example of newspaper websites for reference MHW LKYSPP 2012

Teaching Approach Guest speakers Guest speakers can be invited from e.g. ministries of trade, commerce or finance, embassies of ASEAN countries, business associations, to give an update on AEC implementation MHW LKYSPP 2012

Questions on Course Materials Please email me at sppwmh@nus.edu.sg if you have further questions on the course materials MHW LKYSPP 2012