Asean economy to surpass UK's and Japan's?
This could happen in 5-10 years with AEC and China as catalysts: UOB economists
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DRIVEN by a common market and China's emergence as a giant economic power, Southeast Asia's economy is tipped to swell to a size larger than that of the United Kingdom and Japan.
And this is likely to happen in 5-10 years, according to UOB economists Suan Teck Kin and Francis Tan.
