challenges

• There is uneven impact for FDI inflows

  • some countries like Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam benefit less from the FDI inflows as there is unequal distribution, accounting for only 2.4% of FDI inflow 
  • the ASEAN-6 has an increasing share of intra-ASEAN FDI by 15% from 2007 to 2014
• smaller sphere of influence

  • ASEAN has a smaller sphere of influence compared to WTO and WB