economic community, cultivating its collective
identity and strength to engage with the world,
responding to new developments, and seizing
new opportunities. The new Blueprint will not only
ensure that the 10 ASEAN Member States are
economically integrated, but are also sustainably
and gainfully integrated in the global economy,
thus contributing to the goal of shared prosperity.
The AEC 2025 is envisioned to:
(i) Create a deeply integrated and highly
cohesive ASEAN economy that would
support sustained high economic growth
and resilience even in the face of global
economic shocks and volatilities;
(ii) Engender a more equitable and inclusive
economic growth in ASEAN that narrows
the development gap, eliminates, if not
significantly reduces poverty, sustains
high growth rates of per capita income,
and maintains a rising middle class;
(iii) Foster robust productivity growth through
innovation, technology and human
resource development, and intensified
regional research and development that
is designed for commercial application
to increase ASEAN’s competitive edge
in moving the region up global value
chains (GVCs) into higher technology and
knowledge-intensive manufacturing and
services industries;
(iv) Promote the principles of good governance,
transparency, and responsive regulatory
regimes through active engagement with
the private sector, community-based
organisations, and other stakeholders of
ASEAN;
(v) W i d en A SE AN p e o p le - to - p e o p le,
in s t i tu t io n al, and infr a s t r u c ture
connectivity through ASEAN and subregional cooperation projects that
facilitate movement of capital as well as
skilled labour and talents;
(vi) Create a more dynamic and resilient
ASEAN, capable of responding and
adjusting to emerging challenges through
robust national and regional mechanisms
that address food and energy security
issues, natural disasters, economic
shocks, and other emerging trade-related
issues as well as global mega trends;
(vii) Incorporate a sustainable growth agenda
that promotes a science-based use of, and
support for, green technology and energy;
(viii) Promote the use of the ASEAN Protocol on
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