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)
This report is a summary of studies conducted by the PEO (Pacific Economic Outlook) Structure project group coordinated by Dr. Akira Kohsaka, Professor of International Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. The PEO Structure group held two international meetings in March and September 2010 in Osaka, Japan. These meetings were hosted by the Japan Committee for PEO which is housed and staffed by the Kansai Institute for Social and Economic Research (KISER). The publication consists of an overview essay followed by executive summaries of individual economies/ regions contributed by specialists from PECC member economies.