apec member economies the 21 apec member countries are: australia (founding member) canada (founding member) japan (founding member) malaysia (founding member) philippines (founding member) usa (founding member) thailand (founding member) singapore (founding member) brunei darussalam...
How free are people to control their own labor, property, and finances? This map reveals the state of economic freedom globally.
Business registration in the Philippines 35 Box 3.5. Support platforms for SMEs in Russia 36 Box 3.6. Essential services and SOE reform in Papua New Guinea 37 Box 3.7. Supporting SMEs with access to finance in Hong Kong, China 39 Box 3.8. Support of MSMEs in Indonesia 40 Box 3.9. Data ...
state-owned enterprises (SOEs) performed quite strongly in the first half of 2023, with the value-add of SOEs growing by 4.4 percent year-on-year, compared to 1.9 percent
“the envy of the world.” And yet,surveysfind that few Americans think the economy is doing well. Some think the economy is in recession while many think that inflation remains high. Why is there such a disconnect between the actual economic numbers and perceptions about the state of the ...
regions are highlighting their strategic importance in vital sectors such as energy and food production, with increased investment from the central government. Furthermore, there is agrowing emphasison the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to catalyze development in key sectors, such a...
Government spending +Spending by federal, state, and local governments – eg, schools, roads, national defense Net exportsExports minus imports Note: GDPdoesn’tinclude charity work or criminal activities despite the impact these activities can have on people’s lives. ...
President Biden delivers the2024 State of the Union Address © Karen Rubin/news-p[hotos-features.com via c-span.org The Council of Economic Advisers under the leadership of Chair Jared Bernstein released the 2024 Economic Report of the President, the 78th report since the establishment of ...
Still, these results echo the call to engage developing countries in strategies skipping the intermediate stage of overexploitation during the growing phase to rapidly reach the developed state (HDI > 0.7) when the Living Planet Index, reflecting the state of vertebrate species, begins to ...
While bats are tremendously important to global ecosystems, they have been and continue to be threatened by loss of habitat, food, or roosts, pollution, bat diseases, hunting and killing. Some bat species have also been implicated in the transmission of