According to ASEAN Economic Community Scorecard, AEC will create a highly competitive single market that promotes equitable economic development for member states as well as facilitates their integration with the global community. In order to attain this goal, Dr. Severino emphasized that one way of being competitive as a region was to integrate more, not less because this was a way to attract the investment. A recent study by ISEAS showed that ASEAN had lost investment to China and India due to their huge markets, so without meaningful integration, ASEAN could not compete for investment