Open Windows, Closed Doors : Mutual Recognition Arrangements on Professional Services in the ASEAN Region.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Tables -- Table 1: ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements -- Table 2: Mutual Recognition Arrangement Eligibility Requirement -- Table 3: Implementing Bodies and Offices by Occupational Grouping -- Table 4: Comparing ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement Infrastructure -- Table 5: Post-Mutual Recognition Arrangement Guarantees, by Mutual Recognition Arrangement -- Table 6: Comparison of the ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Engineer -- Table 7: Comparison of ASEAN and European Union Budgets and Personnel, 2015 -- Table 8: Perception of Governance Indicators Comparison between ASEAN and European Union, 2014 -- Table 9: Mobility of Medical Practitioners in ASEAN under Temporary Licensing -- Figures -- Figure 1: Automaticity of the Recognition Process, by Type of Mutual Recognition Arrangement -- Figure 2: Occupations under Tourism Mutual Recognition Arrangement, by Skill Level -- Figure 3: Composition of the National Tourism Professional Boards and Architecture and Engineering Monitoring Committees, by Type of Stakeholder, 2016 -- Figure 4: Composition of National Tourism Professional Board by Type of Stakeholder, Selected ASEAN Members, 2016 -- Figure 5: Composition of Monitoring Committees in Engineering, by Type of Stakeholder, Selected ASEAN Members, 2016 -- Figure 6: Composition of Monitoring Committees in Architecture, by Type of Stakeholder, Selected ASEAN Members, 2016 -- Figure 7: Degree of Mutual Recognition Arrangement Scope and Institutionalization -- Figure 8: ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement Level of Openness -- Figure 9: ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements along Five Dimensions -- Figure 10: Worldwide Governance Indicators Ranking, by Country, 2014.

Figure 11: Composition of Board of Directors, Professional Regulatory Authority on Medicine, Selected ASEAN Countries, 2016 -- Figure 12: ASEAN Member State National Qualifications Framework Level of Implementation, October 2015 -- Boxes -- Box 1: About This Research Project -- Box 2: Progress in Mutual Recognition Arrangement Implementation -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- I. Introduction -- II. A Comparison of ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements along Five Dimensions -- A. Degree of Automaticity of the Recognition Process -- B. Degree of Delegation of Authority -- C. Degree of MRA Scope -- D. Degree of Institutionalization -- E. Post-MRA Guarantees -- III. The ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements: Three Approaches to Mutual Recognition of Qualifications -- IV. The Evolution of the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements: Factors Affecting Design -- A. Presence of Preexisting Standards -- B. Availability of Financial and Technical Resources -- C. Public Safeguards and Differing Realities -- D. Protectionist Concerns -- V. Moving from Design to Implementation: Tradeoffs and Policy Implications of the Three Mutual Recognition Arrangement Approaches -- A. Tourism: Completing the Missing Parts -- B. Accountancy, Architecture, and Engineering: Increasing Scope and Strengthening the Regional Infrastructure -- C. Health Professionals: Building Trust and Strengthening the National Infrastructure -- VI. Looking into the Future: Maximizing the Potential of Mutual Recognition Arrangements as Tools for Building and Utilizing the Region's Human Capital -- A. Creating Synergy between Mutual Recognition Arrangements and the ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework -- B. Linking the Mutual Recognition Arrangements with Existing Mobility Arrangements within ASEAN -- C. Learning from the Current Batch of ASEAN MRAs -- Appendixes.

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