Infrastructure for ASEAN Connectivity and Integration (Research Notes) (Report‪)‬

I. Introduction The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (1) has adopted the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) and ASEAN Vision 2020 for integrating its economies into a single production base, creating a regional market, and changing ASEAN into a stable, prosperous, and highly competitive region. The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint, established to fast-track the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) establishment by 2015, envisioned ASEAN as a highly competitive region, fully integrated into the global economy, possessing a single market production base, and characterized by equitable economic development (Goh 2008).