Asia-Pacific at a Crossroads: Choosing Prosperity
The APEC Business Advisory Council urges the region to continue towards open markets and inclusive growth. Source: APEC News feed
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Op-Ed: Papua New Guinea and APEC’s Digital Development
Officials are working to help all corners of the region go digital. The people are watching and expecting more, impactful results. Source: APEC News feed
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Balancing Data Protection and Free Flow
“Every business operating in more than one area will tell you that data flows are necessary for even the most basic business functions.” – Michael Rose, vice-chair of APEC’s Data Privacy Subgroup Source: APEC News feed
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APEC Post 2020
Brian Lynch*Chair, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Wellington Branch; Chair, New Zealand Committee of PECC; Former alternate New Zealand member of the APEC Business Council. The swirls and eddies currently sweeping across the Asia–Pacific region’s geopolitical and economic landscape do not offer a promising setting for the review of any regional agency, even
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Global Value Chains for an Asian Century
John WestAdjunct ProfessorSophia University, Tokyo In my recent book on the Asian Century, I argue that Asia is sitting on a knife edge. The potential of the region to generate good and happy lives for its citizens is enormous. But the requirements of success and the risks of failure are equally enormous. Asia’s stunted economic and
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Canada's "Progressive" Trade Agenda: Let's be careful how far we push it
Hugh StephensDistinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of CanadaVice-Chair of the Canadian National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (CANCPEC) Back in October of 2016 when the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, (CETA) was on the cusp of closure, the negotiations hit a roadblock when the Belgian region of Wallonia blocked the necessary consensus for
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The trouble with Canada’s ‘progressive’ trade strategy
Hugh StephensDistinguished fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of CanadaVice-Chair of the Canadian National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (CANCPEC) It hasn’t been a good few weeks for the Trudeau government’s “progressive” trade agenda. First, the unwillingness of some countries to swallow elements of the progressive agenda was at least partially responsible for the sudden postponement
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Ministers Seed Sustainable Forest Product Trade
Actions agreed to in Seoul aim to grow trade ranging from legally harvested timber to tourism as consumer demand rises. Source: APEC News feed
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Near-Shoring gains traction as Globalisation stalls
Mark Millar (Author of Global Supply Chain Ecosystems and Visiting Lecturer at Hong Kong Polytechnic University) During the 1990s and 2000s, international trade experienced a substantial boost from mass globalisation, resulting in a huge increase in the volume of inter-continental freight flows and yielding a bonanza for logistics service providers and freight forwarders around the world. This
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