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Issue 15, January 2008 |
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Over the last decade, the APEC region has witnessed an extremely fast pace of economic integration into a global economy. While these developments offer great opportunities for corporations to penetrate the global marketplace, new challenges have emerged which include the growing pressure for lower cost of production, efficient use of resources, and the requirement to follow international rules, practices and standards. The project envisions to compile good practices of CSR in the supply chain in the form of cases, which could be used to enhance understanding of current issues and different approaches to addressing those issues within the region.
APEC#207-HR-01.7, ISBN 978-981-05-9490-9, 276pp |
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In most developing countries, SMEs accounted for more than 90 percent of manufacturing companies although they contributed to less than 20 percent of the total output. The threat of cheaper imports and bigger foreign or even domestic companies establishing themselves and exercising their market power through monopolistic practices are very real in more liberalized environment. Through an industrial organization study using the structure, conduct and performance analysis, this study aims to investigate and uncover the developments that took place in this on-going market liberalization process that is taking place in this region as well examine its implications from the economic and socio-economic dimensions to the developing country members of ASEAN.
APEC#208-AT-01.2, 468pp |
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The Tourism Working Group plans to achieve long-term environmental and social sustainability of the tourism industry and its economic impact, through human resources development, an enlarged role for the business/private sector in policy formulation, removing barriers to tourism movement and investment by liberalizing trade in services associated with tourism, and using tourism as a means to achieve sustainable economic development and mutual understanding among APEC member economies. This report studies the tourism impediments in various member economies and proposes strategies for removing such impediments in order to facilitate mobility of tourism industry factors and enhance economic sustainable development.
APEC208-#208-TO-01.1, ISBN 978-981-08-0455-8, 276pp |
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The project focuses particularly on meeting the needs of women micro-entrepreneurs in urban, rural and indigenous communities. This report represents cumulative findings as of Phase III of a four-part project designed to support micro-enterprise growth through collaboration and international trade linkages in the APEC region. The main findings of the workshops confirmed that women?s micro-enterprises face multiple challenges related to the size of their businesses, the location of their businesses, the nature of their products, various types of gender discrimination, and the dual role of women as family providers and caregivers in most APEC economies.
APEC#208-SM-01.1, 95pp |
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