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Senior Officials Determine Policy Direction in the COVID-19 Age

The Leaders, Ministers and Senior Officials will convene virtually on 11-20 November The Concluding Senior Officials’ Meeting kicks off the first fully virtual Economic Leaders’ Week Source: APEC News feed Continue reading
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Coherent Vision: How the Asia Pacific can drive sustainable and inclusive growth

Eduardo Pedrosa Secretary-General, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) Christopher FindlayVice-chair, Australian Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee (AUSPECC) Honorary professor, The Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU)   Referred to in the past as “four adjectives in search... Continue reading
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Mexico's Automotive Industry Post Covid-19

Leo Guzman-Anaya1University of Guadalajara, MexicoMember of PECC Mexico   BackgroundMexico’s automotive industry experienced a wave of rapid growth after the 2008 financial crisis. It now ranks as the fourth major exporter and the seventh global producer of automobiles and... Continue reading
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COVID-19 and the ‘zoom’ to new global value chains

Christopher Findlay, Honorary Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy, the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University; Vice-Chair, Australian National Committee for Pacific Economic CooperationFukunari Kimura, Chief Economist of the Economic Research Institute... Continue reading
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Trade and Connectivity in the Post-COVID-19 World

Pascal LamyPresident of the Paris Peace Forum of the French Committee of the PECC Former Director General of the WTO &Eduardo PedrosaSecretary-General, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council*   Even as some economies begin to relax their lockdowns, it is too... Continue reading
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The small virus

Diego Solis Rodriguez Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, Young Associate.Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionalesa Next Generation Delegate to the XXII PECC General Meeting. The coronavirus has prompted an unintended global experiment. The pandemic has turned international affairs into a... Continue reading
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Digital Technologies, Services and the Fourth Industrial Revolutions

Submitted by Jane Drake-Brockman, Christopher Findlay, Yose Rizal Damuri and Sherry Stephenson   From 3D printing (3DP) and artificial intelligence (AI), to cloud computing, 5G, and the Internet-of-Things (IoT), digital technologies are prompting radical new business models offered through... Continue reading
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COVID-19: Experiences from best practices in Asia show a path forward in the fight against the coronavirus

Jeffrey ReevesVice-President of Research for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada   Zodov Dolgor has been in self-quarantine since January. Source: PECC News feed Continue reading
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APEC Faces USD 2.1 Trillion in Output Loss to COVID-19

Regional cooperation key to containment and rebound Source: APEC News feed Continue reading
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Multilateral Cooperation is a Safeguard against Pandemics

Rebecca Fatima Sta MariaExecutive Director, APEC Secretariat   Last month, G20 leaders released a statement advocating for a spirit of solidarity in the global response against COVID-19. In these dire times, it is a call that should be heeded... Continue reading