Sustainable Cooperatives: Alternative financial support systems for the poor

An emerging economic order The ASEAN economic integration scheduled to be fully implemented in 2015 will have great impact on the people of the region. Designed to be a common production and marketing unit, goods and services will flow freely among its member-countries and will trigger a survival-of-the-fittest mode for businesses in the region. As…

The need for dialogue to understand the ASEAN Economic Community

Photo source: http://theasiacareertimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/asean.jpg The formation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is one of the most significant issues nowadays but also the least discussed. When fully implemented in 2015, it is expected to transform the economic environment in the region. The design for the region as a single market and production base is presented in…