Introduction to CPI Special Issue on ASEAN Competition Law

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R. Ian McEwin, Aug 24, 2015

Southeast Asia is a region of considerable ethnic differences, levels of economic development, regime types (although all are authoritarian), state administrative capacity, and general institutional development. Despite these considerable differences, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) in December 1997 adopted a Vision 2020 that envisaged “a stable, prosperous and highly competit