Singapore focuses on doing business in APEC
Singapore, ranked 1 out of 181 economies on the ease of Doing Business, is hosting the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference this spring. APEC covers 21 countries, and senior APEC officials are making resisting protectionism and accelerating economic integration key priorities for this year’s meeting.
One new feature of the conference is an initiative by Singapore to identify the top areas of regulatory barrier when doing business in economies of APEC. To achieve this, it is introducing an "Ease of Doing Business" survey, based on that of the Doing Business project. It aims to provide suggestions on the areas and types of reforms to regulations that businesses would like to see APEC governments embark on.
Singapore wants to highlight the results from the survey to the APEC governments to help improve the ease of doing business in the 21 member economies. Any business located in one of the 21 APEC countries can complete the survey through this link.
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APEC covers 21 member economies. But not all members of APEC are sovereign countries, such as "Chinese Taipei" and "Hong Kong，China", who joined the APEC as "regional economy". So the word Country is not used in APEC, especially when it refers to APEC's members. For this reason, experession of 21 countries and APEC countries in the above Blog is incorrect. Hope the author can take necessary amendment.
Posted by: Zhang Yaqiang | Jun 28, 2009 3:43:23 AM