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Executive Summary

The Policy Brief is based on the TIFO 25th Anniversary Symposium in ASEAN with the title "FDI for the Future: Human Capital, Innovation, and Competitiveness", held on Monday, November 24, 2014 initiated by LPEM FEUI in partnership with Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo.

A key message from the seminar was foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important agenda for the AEC, and several issues were flagged: (1) impediments for FDI to ASEAN countries; (2) connectivity between ASEAN countries and their external partners; (3) outward FDI.