Southeast Asia has become an increasingly attractive destination for foreign investors with its fast-growing markets for business and huge untapped potential. ASEAN nations have over the past few years introduced corporate reforms to keep pace with global developments and increase competitiveness.

In this series we present a comparative study with respect to the setting up of companies in all 10 countries in the ASEAN region, highlights of regulatory developments and corporate reforms in each country over the last couple of years, as well as a summary on the ease of doing business in ASEAN based on the World Bank Group’s Doing Business Report 2018.