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Investment in Infrastructure and Regional Integration: Will Connectivity Reduce Inequalities?

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The term “connectivity” emerged among Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) member states (AMS) during meetings concerning the building of the ASEAN economic community (AEC). Following numerous discussions of this concept at the fifteenth ASEAN Summit in October 2009, the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) was adopted in 2010, during the seventeenth ASEAN Summit in Viet Nam. The MPAC (ASEAN, 2011, pp. 1–3) defines connectivity as the physical, institutional, and people-to-people linkages that comprise the foundation support and facilitative means to achieve the economic, political security and sociocultural pillars toward realizing the vision of an integrated ASEAN Community. It therefore relies on three main pillars: the improvement of the institutional environment so as to reduce tariff and nontariff barriers and favor the creation of a single market in the sea and air sectors; the setting up of legislative measures favoring greater mobility of persons within ASEAN; and finally, the development of transnational transport infrastructures whose aim is to favor connectivity within ASEAN.

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Fau, N. (2016). Investment in Infrastructure and Regional Integration: Will Connectivity Reduce Inequalities?. In: Jetin, B., Mikic, M. (eds) ASEAN Economic Community. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137535085_15

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