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New Southeast Asian Economic Outlook on track
The Asean Secretariat and the OECD Development Centre launched a collaborative project on the occasion of the 2nd OECD-Southeast Asia Regional Forum entitled "Enhancing Competitiveness through Regional Integration" which took place in Bangkok on Monday 27 April 2009.
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OECD's regional activities in South East Asia started in 1998 in response to the Asian financial crisis. Since then, the subject range has been gradually diversified from areas of financial sector reform to broader economic issues, in line with the extent of the economic recovery and requests from Asian non-members.
The reform of financial and capital markets, and related policy issues such as corporate governance, insurance and pensions, international taxation, competition and the OECD/ADB Anti-Corruption Initiative, will continue to be at the heart of the programme. Other activities will enrich OECD’s view on regional aspects of those issues, and are expected to complement OECD’s efforts at global level, notably the OECD Global Forums.
Policy dialogue meetings which take place within the framework of OECD activities in South East Asia play an important role in building of networks among officials and various stakeholders in the region. Another important objective of this regional approach is to contribute to regional efforts of capacity building in policy areas of mutual interest between OECD and economies of the South East Asian region.
Hong Kong, China; India; Indonesia; Malaysia; Singapore; Thailand and Chinese Taipei participate in the work of several OECD Committees and Working Groups.
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