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in energy and environmental business, such as the restructuring of national power sectors in anticipation of privatization. For more information on the GLOBE Foundation, e-mail or visit the GLOBE website at . PBEC, PECC AND ABAC SECRETARIATS 68 In line with its goal of building transpacific business networks, the Foundation is the Canadian secretariat for three Pacific Rim economic groupings: the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) and the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). PECC brings together academic, business and government officials, in a non-official capacity, from 23 Pacific-Rim economies to promote regional economic cooperation and policy coordination. PBEC is a private-sector association of more than 1,100 business leaders from 20 Pacific-Basin economies that supports the expansion of trade and investment through open markets. ABAC is a group of senior regional business executives who advise APEC Leaders on the Pacific business community’s priority concerns in the areas of trade and investment liberalization and business facilitation. As an official observer of APEC, PECC provides expert analysis and policy advice for governments on a variety of issues affecting trade and investment. PECC also coordinates industry-government dialogues in partnership with APEC. PBEC’s Canadian Committee hosts a number of business events throughout the year, and participates in the annual meeting of representatives of bilateral trade associations. The ABAC secretariat provides research and analytical support to ABAC’s work program, and facilitates consultations with the Canadian business community on behalf of Canada’s three ABAC members. STRUCTURE The Foundation is guided by a board of directors of up to 15 volunteer members from across the country who represent government, academia and the private sector. Michael E. J. Phelps, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Westcoast Energy Inc. of Vancouver is Chairman of the Board. Dr. John D. Wiebe is President and Chief Executive Officer. APFC receives financial support from the federal government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Canadian International Development Agency; the provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec; and a number of private companies. A significant portion of its revenues come from fees paid for Foundation, GLOBE and CEC Network programs and services. Consolidated revenue of APFC and its subsidiaries, the GLOBE Foundation and the CEC Network, is around $11.5 million in the year to March 30, 2000. Together APFC, GLOBE and the CEC Network employ about 80 people. The Foundation’s headquarters are in Vancouver, with additional offices in Manitoba and Quebec, as well as the 16 CEC offices in Canada, Asia and Latin America.
NOTES CHAPTER 1 1. Based on marketshare in Canada’s ten largest markets in Asia — China, Hong Kong (SAR), India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. 2. UNCTAD provides a measure of integration into the global economy with a transnationality index, which is an average of four ratios: FDI flows to gross fixed capital formation over the past three years; inward FDI stock to GDP; foreign affiliate value added to GDP; and foreign affiliate employment to total employment. Canada ranks ninth, just behind Sweden and just ahead of Spain, among the developed countries. The value of the index for Canada is about 14%, more than twice that of the US. The highest ranking among developed countries is New Zealand at 32%. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 1999: Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Development (Geneva: United Nations, 1999), p. 17. 3. The amount of tax-deferred savings held in the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans, Registered Retirement Savings Plans, registered pension plans and other pension schemes at the end of 1999 is estimated at $1.252 trillion by Joel Fried and Ron Wirick, Assessing the Foreign Property Rule: Regulation without Reason. 20 January 2000. 4. Asian Development Bank, Emerging Asia: Changes and Challenges (Manila: Asian Development Bank, 1997), p. 42. 69 5. Fried and Wirick, Assessing the Foreign Property Rule. 20 January 2000. 6. KPMG, Canada Ranks First in Comparison of G-7 Business Costs — KPMG Study. 20 January 2000. CHAPTER 1(SIDEBAR) 1. The Lisbon Group, Limits to Competition (Boston: MIT Press, 1996), pp. 77-78, as quoted in Canada Economic Development (for Quebec Regions), The Challenge of Globalization: Developing Export Markets, March 1996. 24 January 2000. 2. Asian Development Bank, Emerging Asia: Changes and Challenges (Manila: Asian Development Bank, 1997), p. 99. 3. Joel Fried and Ron Wirick, Assessing the Foreign Property Rule: Regulation without Reason. 20 January 2000. 4. Bank for International Settlements, Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity 1998. 21 January 2000. 5. Martin Wolf, “Editorial,” Financial Times, 15 December 1999. CHAPTER 2 1. Figures used in this section are largely drawn from Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov and Daniela Klingebiel, Financial Restructuring in East Asia: Halfway There? Financial Sector Discussion Paper No. 3. 25 January 2000. 2. Figure from Thomson Financial Securities Data as quoted in Vasantha Ganesan, “1999 M&A deals in Asia exceed US $92bn,” Business Times (Malaysia). 15 January 2000. CHAPTER 3 1. Ashfaq Ahmad, Someshwar Rao and Colleen Barnes, Foreign Direct Investment and APEC Economic Integration, Working Paper Number 8 (Ottawa: Industry Canada, 1996), p. 31. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development estimated that in 1996, intra-firm trade was fully one-third of total global trade. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 1999 (Geneva: United Nations, 1999), p. 233. 2. Someshwar Rao, Marc Legault and Ashfaq Ahmad, “Canadian-Based Multinationals: An Analysis of Activities and Performance,” Canadian-Based Multinationals, Steven Globerman ed. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, Industry Canada Research Series, Vol. 4, 1994), p. 96. 3. Ahmad, Rao and Barnes, Foreign Direct Investment and APEC Economic Integration, p. iii. 4. Ahmad, Rao and Barnes, Foreign Direct Investment and APEC Economic Integration, p. 31. 5. Ahmad, Rao and Barnes, Foreign Direct Investment and APEC Economic Integration, p. 31. 6. Brunei Darussalam, China, Hong Kong (SAR), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
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