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Mobility of skilled labor in the ASEAN:
Free or unfree?

Professor Rene E. Ofreneo

University of the Philippines

An inquiry on the ASEAN program on the mobility of skilled

labor

The Jakarta-based Secretariat of the Association of

Southeast Nations (ASEAN) has been declaring that the ten countries
composing the ASEAN are on the high road to economic
community-hood, meaning the regional bloc is becoming one

integrated ASEAN economic community (AEC) as outlined in the
AEC 2015 blueprint and the succeeding AEC 2025 blueprint .
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Economic community-hood is equated to the fulfillment of the
ASEAN vision to become one single market and one production
base. The AEC is characterized by the following:

6 Both the AEC 2015 and AEC 2025 are downloadable at the website of
the ASEAN – www.asean.org .

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