Brunei Darussalam

While trade liberalisation through ASEAN will open up opportunities for Brunei Darussalam, the Sultanate may have a larger immediate impact within the smaller sub-region of Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines-East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA). Established in 1994 to address the socioeconomic progress of less developed, marginalised and far-flung areas and...

Much of the procedural elements of Brunei Darussalam’s regional integration are intended to tear down any remaining trade barriers in order to facilitate greater trade between member countries. But in order to take full advantage of these new opportunities, a network of seamless interconnectivity between these markets must be established in terms of communications,...

With the sum total of nearly every national economy now irrevocably intertwined in a global marketplace, cooperation between different countries has become an imperative component of modern economics. Although countless trade barriers still exist in some form or another all around the world, longheld isolationist and protectionist measures which erect trade barriers at...