LIST OF ACRONYMS
AADMER
= ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and
Emergency Response
AANZFTA
= ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
ABIF
= ASEAN Banking Integration Framework
ABIS
= ASEAN Business Investment Summit
ACCSQ
= ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and
Quality
ACFTA
= ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement
ACIA
= ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement
AC-SPS
= ASEAN Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary
ACT
= ASEAN Consultation to Solve Trade and Investment
Issues
ACTD
= ASEAN Technical Dossiers
ACTR
= ASEAN Common Technical Requirement
ACTS
= ASEAN Credit Transfer System
ACWL
= Advisory Center for WTO Law
AEC
= ASEAN Economic Community
AEM
= ASEAN Economic Ministers
AFAFGIT
= ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of
Goods in Transit
AFAFIST
= ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of
Inter-State Transport
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AFAMT
= ASEAN Framework on Multimodal Transport
AFAS
= ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services
AFSIS
= ASEAN Food Security Information System
AFTA
= ASEAN Free Trade Agreement
AHTN
= ASEAN harmonized tariff nomenclature
AIF
= ASEAN Infrastructure Fund
AIFDR
= Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction
AIFS
= ASEAN Integrated Food Security
AIFTA
= ASEAN-India FTA
AJCEP
= ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership
AKFTA
= ASEAN-Korea Free Trade Area
AMCHAM
= American Chamber of Commerce
AMRO
= ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office
AMSs
= ASEAN Member States
ANZ
= Australia-New Zealand
APBSD
= ASEAN Policy Blueprint for SME Development
APEC
= Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
APS
= Alternative Policy Scenario
APSA
= ASEAN Petroleum Security Agreement
APTERR
= Asian Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
ARDEX
= ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response
Simulation Exercise
ARIC ADB
= Asia Regional Integration Center Asian Development
Bank
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ARPDM
= ASEAN Regional Program on Disaster Management
ASAM
= ASEAN Single Aviation Market
ASCOPE
= ASEAN Council on Petroleum
ASEAN
= Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEC
= ASEAN Secretariat
ASTP
= ASEAN Strategic Transport Plan
ASW
= ASEAN Single Window
ATIGA
= ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement
ATR
= ASEAN Trade Repository
ATS
= Alternative Technologies
AUN
= ASEAN University Network
AUN-SEED
= ASEAN University Network-Southeast Asia
Engineering Education Development Network
BAPPENAS = Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Nasional/
National Development Planning Agency
BCLMV
= Brunei, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Viet Nam
BOCM
= Bilateral Off-set Credit Mechanism
BSEC
= Black Sea Economic Community
CADP
= Comprehensive Asian Development Plan
CCA
= Coordinating Committee for Implementation of ATIGA
CCRIF
= Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility
CCT
= Clean Coal Technology
CEPEA
= Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia
CEPT
= Common Effective Preferential Tariff
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CERM
= Coordinated Emergency Response Mechanism
CGE
= Computable General Equilibrium
CJK-FTA
= China-Japan-Korea FTA
CLMV
= Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Viet Nam
CMIM
= Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation
COMESA
= Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
COO
= Certificates of Origin
CSME
= Caribbean Single Market and Economy
DRR
= Disaster Risk Reduction
DSM
= Dispute Settlement Mechanism
DVA
= Domestic Value Added
EAFTA
= East Asian FTA
EAS
= East Asia Summit
EASG
= East Asia Study Group
EAVG
= East Asia Vision Group
EDSM
= Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism
EEC
= Energy Efficiency
EFTA
= European Free Trade Association
EIB
= European Investment Bank
ERIA
= Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
ESB
= Eastern Seaboard Development
EU
= European Union
FDI
= Foreign Direct Investment
FIT
= Feed-in-Tariff
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FSI
= French-Singapore Institute
FTAAP
= Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific
GATS
= General Agreement on Trade in Services
GCI
= Global Competitiveness Index
GDP
= Gross Domestic Product
GII
= Global Innovation Index
GSI
= German-Singapore Institute
GTAP
= Global Trade Analysis Project
GVC
= Global Value Chain
HDI
= Human Development Index
IAI
= Initiative for ASEAN Integration
ICT
= information and communication technology
IEA
= International Energy Agency
IMF
= International Monetary Fund.
IPR
= Intellectual Property Rights
IRENA
= International Renewable Energy Agency
JETRO
= Japan External Trade Organization
JICA
= Japan International Cooperation Agency
JSI
= Japan-Singapore Institute
JV
= Joint Ventures
LAIA
= Latin American Integration Area
LCOE
= Levelised Cost of Energy
LPI
= logistics performance index
LSPs
= logistics services providers
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MAAS
= Multilateral Agreement on Air Services
MAFLAFS
= Multilateral Agreement on the Full Liberalisation of Air
Freight
MAFLPAS
= Multilateral Agreement on the Full Liberalisation of
Passenger Air Services
MCDV
= Myanmar Comprehensive Development Vision
METI
= Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
MNC
= multinational corporations
MNPED
= Myanmar Ministry of National Planning and Economic
Development
MPAC
= Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity
MTR
= Mid-Term Review
NAFTA
= North American Free Trade Agreement
NEDA
= National Economic and Development Authority
NRE
= New Renewable Energy
NSW
= National Single Window
NSWs
= national single windows
NTB
= Non-Tariff Barriers
NTM
= Non-Tariff Measures
ODA
= Official Development Assistance
OECD
= Organisation of Economic Co-operation and
Development
PBCE
= Project Bond Credit Enhancement
PDC
= Penang Development Corporation
PIDS
= Philippine Institute for Development Studies
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PPP
= Public-Private Partnership
PPP
= Purchasing Power Parity
PSDC
= Penang Skills Development Center
QAB
= ASEAN Qualified Banks
RCEP
= Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
RIA
= Roadmap for Integration of ASEAN
RIA
= Regulatory Impact Assessment
RIATS
= Roadmap for Integration of Air Travel Sector
RIN
= Research Institutes Network
ROK
= Republic of Korea
ROO
= Rules of Origin
RORO
= Roll-on/Roll-off
RPS
= Renewable Portfolio Standard
S&C
= Standards and Conformance
SAPASD
= Strategic Action Plan for ASEAN SME Development
SAR
= Search and Rescue
SEOM
= Senior Economic Officials Meeting
SKRL
= Singapore-Kunming Railway Link
SMEs
= Small and medium enterprises
SPA-FS
= Strategic Plan of Action on Food Security
SPR
= Strategic Petroleum Reserve
SPS
= Sanitary and Phytosanitary
STOM
= Senior Transport Officials Meeting
SWOT
= Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
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TBT
= technical barriers to trade
TFP
= Total Factor Productivity
TPES
= Total Primary Energy Supply
TPP
= Trans-Pacific Partnership
TPRM
= Trade Policy Review Mechanism
TRIPS
= Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
UNCED
= United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development
UNCTAD
= United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNISDR
= United Nations International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction
USA
= United Sates of America
USAID
= United States Agency for International Development
WIPO-ASEAN= World Intellectual Property Organization-ASEAN
WIPO-INSEAD= World Intellectual Property Organization- Institut
Européen d'Administration des Affaires
WTO
= World Trade Organization
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