Pacific Currents
Global value chains: From fruitful discussions to meaningful actions
Juan Navarro, Associate Faculty, Royal Roads University
Climate change in SOTR
Christopher Findlay, Tilak Doshi and Eduardo Pedrosa
Digital Technologies, Services and the Fourth Industrial Revolutions
Submitted by Jane Drake-Brockman, Christopher Findlay, Yose Rizal Damuri and Sherry Stephenson
COVID-19 has Exposed Major Gaps in our Social Safety Nets: In a Post-COVID World Will these Gaps be Closed?
Hugh Stephens
Vice Chair, CANCPEC; Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; Executive Fellow, School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
Multilateral Cooperation is a Safeguard against Pandemics
Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria
Executive Director, APEC Secretariat
International cooperation during COVID-19
Sungbae An
Senior Research Fellow, Department of International Macroeconomics and Finance, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)
The annual CTPECC Youth Camp took place from 30 June to 1 July this year at Tianmu Convention Center in Taipei. The aim of the annual event is to inform undergraduate students of important current international affairs and to equip them with skills needed to analyze and deliberate on global economic and political affairs. Speakers consisted of eminent persons from the academia, the business community, and the government who gave presentations regarding major international current issues, cultures, and etiquettes among others. One highlight of the camp was the simulation workshop of APEC meetings (Model APEC). Young students were assigned to various working groups representing different economies to discuss and debate on issues of regional economic integration and green growth.