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)
On 7th August 2020, China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (CNCPEC) held a virtual symposium on Promoting Connectivity in Asia Pacific towards a Future of Shared Prosperity and Sustainability. The symposium was envisioned to facilitate the development of a seamlessly and comprehensively connected and integrated Asia Pacific, and provide intellectual inputs and policy recommendations to the ongoing midterm review of (2015-2025), which was adopted by APEC economic leaders in Beijing in 2014.