Open windows, closed doors : mutual recognition arrangements on professional services in the ASEAN region / Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza [and three others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Mendoza, Dovelyn Rannveig, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ASEAN.

Knowledge workers--Southeast Asia.

Knowledge workers.

Foreign workers--Southeast Asia.

Foreign workers.

Labor mobility--Southeast Asia.

Labor mobility.

Southeast Asia--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 51 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines : Asian Development Bank, [2016]

Summary:

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has signed mutual recognition arrangements in the tourism sector and in six regulated occupations: accountancy, architecture, dentistry, engineering, medicine, and nursing. By setting standardized rules for mutual recognition, ASEAN members have made it easier forprofessionals to have their qualifi cations recognized across the region. Although these arrangements sharenearly identical objectives, not all are created equal and come with varying levels of openness to foreign professionals.

Contents:

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.

References.

Notes:

"Publication stock no. RPT168579-2"--Verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-51).

Description based on print version record.