Tag: Asean integration

Home » Asean integration
Asean committee
Members of the Asean committee on the implementation of the Asean declaration on the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers meet in Indonesia. —ASEAN.ORG PHOTO
Post
April 25, 2026April 25, 2026Economy

The mirage behind Asean’s vision of free labor flows 

by

When the Asean Economic Community was officially launched in 2015, the rhetoric was intoxicating. A single market and production base. The free flow of skilled labor. A region where a Filipino engineer could compete on equal footing with a Singaporean counterpart, where a Filipino nurse could work in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok...