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		<title>WTO ministerial conference: time for a new world trade strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/12/20/wto-ministerial-conference-time-for-a-new-world-trade-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/12/20/wto-ministerial-conference-time-for-a-new-world-trade-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eduardo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Christopher Findlay is Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions at the University of Adelaide and Vice-Chair of AUSPECC
Republished from the East Asia Forum
The weather was awful outside the WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva last week, but there was some sunshine within the convention centre.
Russia acceded as a member, along with Samoa, Montenegro [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who will write the rules for Asia-Pacific Trade?</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/11/02/who-will-write-the-rules-for-asia-pacific-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/11/02/who-will-write-the-rules-for-asia-pacific-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eduardo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter A. Petri, non-resident Senior Fellow with the East-West Center and a Professor of International Finance at Brandeis University
Republished from the East West Center 
(This analysis originally appeared in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on Oct. 16, 2011 as part of a monthly series on regional Asia Pacific issues leading up to the APEC leaders’ meetings in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Youth Delegates Report on PECC 20th General Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/10/31/2011-youth-delegates-report-on-pecc-20th-general-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/10/31/2011-youth-delegates-report-on-pecc-20th-general-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>betty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Cooperation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PECC 20]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PECC XX]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Youth Delegation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Plenary: Asia Pacific Regional Outlook and Concurrent Session: Enabling 21st Century Services in the Asia Pacific
Prepared by Youth delegates Angela Zhang Yiou (HK), Muhan Cheng (CT) and Jihye Seon(KO), 29September2011
The First Plenary session was moderated by Mr. Zou Mingrong. The first speaker Roberto Cardarelli delivered the Overview and Forecast of the IMF on global economy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The global implications of sending gas to Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/10/25/the-global-implications-of-sending-gas-to-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/10/25/the-global-implications-of-sending-gas-to-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eduardo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Minerals & Energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Regional Cooperation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Christopher Findlay is Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions at the University of Adelaide and Vice-Chair of AUSPECC
Republished from the East Asia Forum 

Commentators on these pages have been pondering the implications of the Fukushima explosion on Japan’s energy policy and its strategy for international purchases. Samuels suggests an extensive re-examination of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>72% of Asia Pacific Opinion Leaders Favor Plurilateral Services Negotiations</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/10/13/72-of-asia-pacific-opinion-leaders-favor-plurilateral-services-negotiations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/10/13/72-of-asia-pacific-opinion-leaders-favor-plurilateral-services-negotiations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eduardo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Trade and Investment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Global Services Network Update
republished from http://globalservicesnetwork.com/GSNOctober32011.html

Following the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Conference on Trade in Services in Hong Kong earlier this year, the PECC included in their annual survey of opinion leaders across the Asia Pacific the specific question &#8220;should APEC members take the lead in promoting a plurilateral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTA Strategies in China and India</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/10/13/fta-strategies-in-china-and-india/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/10/13/fta-strategies-in-china-and-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eduardo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Trade and Investment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ganeshan Wignaraja
Principal Economist, Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian Development Bank
Slow progress in the WTO Doha Round trade talks has seen China and India have focussing on free trade agreements (FTAs) as a vehicle of trade strategy and economic diplomacy. By mid-2011, the two Asian giants were among Asia&#8217;s leaders in FTA activity with 11 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PECC Mourns the Passing of Prof Tan Teck Meng, SINCPEC Chair 1997-2008</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/07/12/pecc-mourns-the-passing-of-prof-tan-teck-meng-sincpec-chair-1997-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/07/12/pecc-mourns-the-passing-of-prof-tan-teck-meng-sincpec-chair-1997-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zakiah</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Tan Teck Meng]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Tan Teck Meng, former chair of SINCPEC, passed away in the early morning of 7 July 2011 in his sleep. He had been battling cancer for some time.
Prof Tan was the chair of SINCPEC from 1997 to 2008,  he was also a member of the Finance Committee and Trustee of the PECC Special Fund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/05/11/preparing-for-natural-disasters-in-the-asia-pacific-region/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/05/11/preparing-for-natural-disasters-in-the-asia-pacific-region/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 06:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Food/Agriculture]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[disaster relief]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don Gunasekera, Senior Economist, CSIRO, Canberra
The 2004 Asian tsunami illustrated the disproportionate impact that natural disasters have on poorer communities. More recent natural disasters in New Zealand, Japan, Australia and the US have shown that even well-to-do communities can be significantly hard hit by the impact of catastrophic and severe weather events. Preparing for natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Trade Agreements in East Asia: A Way toward Trade Liberalization</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/01/21/free-trade-agreements-in-east-asia-a-way-toward-trade-liberalization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/01/21/free-trade-agreements-in-east-asia-a-way-toward-trade-liberalization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eduardo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Masahiro Kawai
Dean and CEO, Asian Development Bank Institute
and
Ganeshan Wignaraja
Principal Economist, Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian Development Bank
The inability to conclude the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Development Round has spawned a proliferation of bilateral and plurilateral free trade  agreements (FTAs) across the globe. While East Asia is a relative newcomer to FTAs, the region [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Structural Reforms in East Asia The Key to Sustaining Global Recovery and Advancing Regional Free Trade</title>
		<link>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/01/19/structural-reforms-in-east-asia-the-key-to-sustaining-global-recovery-and-advancing-regional-free-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pecc.org/blog/2011/01/19/structural-reforms-in-east-asia-the-key-to-sustaining-global-recovery-and-advancing-regional-free-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eduardo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Julius Caesar Parrenas, PhD
Senior Advisory Fellow, Institute for International Monetary Affairs (IIMA)1
posted from: http://www.iima.or.jp/pdf/newsletter2010/NLNo_37_e.pdf
The recent G20 and APEC meetings in Seoul and Yokohama underscored the importance of structural reforms. While G20 leaders struggled over the way forward to achieve sustained global economic recovery, APEC leaders went ahead to launch work toward a Free Trade Area [...]]]></description>
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