Association of Southeast Asian

Nations (ASEAN)
• Pol & economic  organization
• formed on 8 August 1967 .
• Signed in Bangkok  the ASEAN Declaration, more
commonly known as the Bangkok Declaration
•  Headquarters of ASEAN- Jakarta, Indonesia. 
• The motto of ASEAN-
•  “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”.
 ASEAN
Association of Southeast Asian Nations

10 Member States:
• Brunei Darussalam (7 • Myanmar (23
January 1984) July 1997)

• Cambodia (30 • Philippines (8

April 1999) August 1967)

• Indonesia (8 • Singapore (8
August 1967) August 1967)

• Lao PDR • Thailand (8

(23 July 1997) August 1967)

• Malaysia (8 • Viet Nam (28

August 1967) July 1995)

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ASEAN Aims and Purposes
Political and social stability

Social progress

The economic growth

To promote
Southeast asian studies

Regional peace and stability

Cultural development
 ASEAN Aims and Purposes

The expansion of their trade

The improvement of transportation

and communications facilities
To collaborate more effectively for Raising of the living standards of
the peoples.

agriculture and industries

beneficial cooperation with existing

international and regional organisations.
 Achievements

• Strengthened cooperation in the economic

relations through trade agreements .
• Preferential market access- regional markets,
with less barriers and tariffs for your goods
than before.
• Lower costs to participate in the markets of
asean nations.
 Challenges To ASEAN
• Existing income inequality gap among some of the ASEAN countries
• Gap between rich and poor ASEAN member states remains very large
and they have a mixed record on income inequality.
• While singapore boasts the highest gdp per capita—nearly $53,000 (2016),
cambodia’s per capita gdp is the lowest at less than $1,300.
• Many regional initiatives were not able to be incorporated into national plans,
• less developed countries faced resource constraints to implement the regional
commitments.
• Political and socio-cultural diversity among asean countries which makes
economic integration challenging- mixed with democracies, communist, and
authoritarian states.
India- ASEAN Relations

•Early 1990s -economic liberalisation in

India-‘Look East Policy’.
•2014, formally enunciated the Act East
Policy.
•Mission to ASEAN:
• India has set up a separate Mission to
ASEAN Jakarta in April 2015 to