Policy paper

ASEAN Economic Reform Programme

This programme promotes inclusive economic growth in south east Asia, and increasing prosperity, through business environment, financial and business services.

From:: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published: 21 June 2019
Last updated: 303 ~~March~~April ~~2023~~2024 — See all updates

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Prosperity
ASEAN FundEconomic businessReform case:Programme programme completion review, June 2023

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ASEAN Economic Reform Programme annual review, October 2021 to March 2023

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ASEAN Economic Reform evaluationannual reportreview, CycleSeptember 22020 to September 2021

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ASEAN Economic Reform annual reviewreview, August 2019 to October 2020

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ASEAN Economic Reform annualevaluation reviewreport 2021Cycle 2

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Prosperity Fund business case: ASEAN Economic Reform Programme

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Until January 2019 the ASEAN Economic Reform Programme was called the South East (SE) Asia Economic Reform programme.

This Economic Reform programme ~~aims~~aimed to address 2 themes: business environment and financial and business services, whilst looking at where the UK can add the most value. These are central to inclusive economic growth and support further sector-specific Prosperity Fund work.

The programme iswas worth ~~£19~~£21 million over 4 years, and iswas expected to deliver £351 million in primary benefits and £352 million in secondary benefits over 10 years.

Business environment

Improving the business environment can deliver a significant boost to economic growth. Each regulatory reform is associated, on average, with a 0.15% increase in growth.

Financial and business services

Economic growth would be more stable and inclusive if the region’s capital markets were developed further. Growth from financial development can only be inclusive if it meets the financing needs of households and firms, including the underprivileged.

This programme ~~will~~focused ~~operate~~on in the 6 largest ~~South~~south ~~East~~east Asian countries: Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), ~~Indonesia,~~ Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and ~~Vietnam),~~Vietnam. ~~covering~~In ~~95%~~the offinal SEyear ~~Asia’s~~ ~~total~~ ~~population,~~ ~~95%~~ of ~~those~~the inprogramme, ~~poverty~~it ~~and~~expanded ~~86%~~to ofmore ~~the~~ASEAN ~~regions~~member ~~GDP.~~countries.

ASEAN Economic Reform Programme

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Prosperity ASEAN FundEconomic businessReform case:Programme programme completion review, June 2023 ODT, 104 KB This file is in an OpenDocument format

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Business environment

Financial and business services

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Prosperity
ASEAN FundEconomic businessReform case:Programme programme completion review, June 2023

ODT, 104 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format