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...A continent or just an island? Maybe both! Deserts, mountains, tropical rainforests, a few fertile plains: undoubtedly there are a lot of contrasts in this country, whose cities and population are concentrated along eastern and south-eastern coasts. Nonetheless its heart is what fascinates the most: red mountains and red sand are what the world knows better of Australia...

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...This report presents the estimates of trade transaction costs in APEC for each year from 2006 to 2010. The estimates are to form part of the Final Assessment of TFAP II and are to be based on the methodology and approach that was developed for the Interim Assessment of that Plan....

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... APEC’s Achievements in Trade Facilitation 2007-2010 Final Assessment of Second Trade Facilitation Action Plan (... ...s Mobility Group, and the Electronic Commerce Steering Group. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily repr... .......................................................................... 1 A. 2007-2010 Trading Environment ............................................. ......................................................... 33 iv APEC’s Achievements in Trade Facilitation 2007-2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Following the c... .............................. 33 iv APEC’s Achievements in Trade Facilitation 2007-2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Following the conclusion of APEC’s Second ... ...Following the conclusion of APEC’s Second Trade Facilitation Action Plan (TFAP II) in 2010, the APEC Policy Support Unit (PSU) conducted the Final As... ...en implemented since June 2010.) 25 Members with a single window system include Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Chile; China; Indonesia; Jap... ... 28 Full members of the ABTC scheme (year of joining): Australia (1997); Brunei Darussalam (2001); Chile (1998); China (2... ... 31 Members participating in the Data Privacy Pathfinder include Australia; Canada; Chile; China; Hong Kong, China; Japan; Korea; M...

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...This report presents the estimates of trade transaction costs in APEC for each year from 2006 to 2010. The estimates are to form part of the Final Assessment of TFAP II and are to be based on the methodology and approach that was developed for the Interim Assessment of that Plan....

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... Aggregate Measurement of Trade Transaction Costs in APEC 2007-2010 APEC Policy Support Unit August 2011 ... ... Aggregate Measurement of Trade Transaction Costs in APEC 2007-2010 APEC Policy Support Unit August 2011 ... ... Prepared by: ITS Global Level 1, 34 Queen Street; Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia Policy Support Unit Asia-Pacific Economic Cooper... ...isit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/sg/. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily r... ............................................... 7 B. Indicators of the transaction costs in merchandise trade ............................................. ..................... 30 Measurement of Trade Transaction Cost Reduction in APEC 2007-2010 ii LIST OF ANNEXES ANNEX A: METHODOLOGY & APPROACH U... ...s iii LIST OF TABLES Table 2.1: Value of merchandise trade, by APEC economy, 2006 to 2010, US dollars, 2011 prices ................................... ......................................................................... 48 Table C. 2. Australia: Transaction costs on merchandise trade, 2006-2010, U... ...llion 2008 USD billion 2009 USD billion 2010 USD billion Change 2006-10 % Australia 291 332 409 337 431 48 Brunei Darussalam 10 12 13 9 ...

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...The July-August-September edition of Hinduism's flagship spiritual magazine, Hinduism Today, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. It travels the globe from India to Australia, from Nepal to Mauritius, and it introduces an amazing man we have named the 2010 Hindu of the Year. That story fi...

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...APEC Leaders in 2009 endorsed an APEC-wide improvement of 25 percent by 2015 in five key areas of doing business: 1) Starting a Business; 2) Getting Credit; 3) Enforcing Contracts; 4) Trading Across Borders; and 5) Dealing with Permits, w...

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... http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/sg/. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily repre... ... Member Economies. The authors thank Ms. Bernadine Zhang Yuhua for her assistance in preparing this report and the Economic Committee, particularly i... ...s and contributions. Executive Summary iii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY APEC Leaders in 2009 endorsed an APEC-wide improvement of 25 percent by 2015 in ... ...titative assessment based on the World Bank’s Doing Business indicators from 2009-2010, the latest data available, shows APEC is making good progress... ...ress. APEC’s combined improvement across the five priority areas between 2009 and 2010 is equivalent to 2.8 percent, exceeding the pro rata benchmark... ...im Assessment APEC - Overall Progress at Ease of Doing Business Initiative (2009-2010) Pro Rata Benchmark = 2.5 percent Region Starting a Busine... ...tudies on Peru and Thailand are expected to be completed soon. Fostering SMEs in Australia Australia has been recognized as one of the best plac... ...art a business as it only requires two procedures and two days. Nevertheless, the Australian government recognizes that there is always more to be d... ... shop where small business can get in touch with specialist advisers. Source: “Australia Tops for Starting a Small Business”. Minister for Small B...

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...s to assess the contribution of the actions and measures of APEC‘s Electronic Commerce Steering Group (ECSG) towards reducing trade transaction costs in the region through a case study of an Electronic Certificate of Origin (e-CO) project. The study assesses the results of the e-CO Pathfinder Project between Chinese Taipei and Korea in reducing trade transaction costs sinc...

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... Facilitating Electronic Commerce in APEC: A Case Study of Electronic Certificate of Origin (e-CO) ... ...O) APEC Policy Support Unit October 2011 Reducing Trade Transaction Costs in APEC through Electronic Commerce 2 ... ...the APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group, for her support. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily repr... ...APPENDIX 7: Nature of Export and Import Procedures (Costs and Duration) in APEC – 2010.................................................................. ...: Trade Values and Container Volumes for Intra-APEC trades (exports and imports), 2010 ................................................................. ....... 60 APPENDIX 10: Intra-APEC Trade Transaction CostS and Economy Contribution, 2010 ................................................................. ... Chinese Taipei 10%. 0.18% 3 More ―e- Advanced‖ Economies adopt e-CO. Assume Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia;... ... focusing on economies that may adopt the e-CO more rapidly – namely the ASEAN-6, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, US, Canada, Hong Kong, China... ... Economies with ASEAN-6). In addition to CT and ROK (as in Scenario 2), assume Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia...

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...This is an amazing little volume and a paradox all of its own. It is published in the United States, in a French translation of a compilation of essays from the original Romanian made jointly by Paul Georgelin and the man it is all about: Smarandache....

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... overall accountability for government allocations while internal university matters were to be left to University Councils. An autonomous university in Thailand is defined as a government agency that receives a block grant, operates outside the government bureaucracy and is overseen by the Minister of Education. This includes freedom to determine salaries and staff benefi...

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...The purpose of this project is to contribute to ongoing efforts tailored toward promoting greater financial markets stability and integration in APEC economies, achieved by: 1) undertaking research to determine the conditions that foster financial market stability to enhance integration of financial markets across the region; and 2) drawing on the findings of the r...

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...perspectives — the specific objective that was set for their sub-area of the Plan and their contribution to the overall goal for the Plan of a 5% cut in trade transaction costs....

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... Prepared by: ITS Global Level 1, 34 Queen Street; Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 Australia Akhmad Bayhaqi Policy Support Unit Asia-Pacif... ... Sub- Committee on Customs Procedures (SCCP) for his strong support. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessaril... ...ADING ACROSS BORDERS SURVEY.................. 65 ANNEX C: ACTIONS ON CUSTOMS PROCEDURES IN INDIVIDUAL ACTION PLANS, 2006 TO 2009....................... ......................................................................... 8 Table 3 Change in average customs clearance times, selected APEC economies, ... ........ 13 Table 4 Time taken in Customs clearance and technical control in APEC, 2006 to 2010 ...... 14 Table 5 Transaction costs in merchandise trad... ... Transaction costs in merchandise trade by APEC economies, by logistical stage, 2006 to 2010 ........................................................... ...f which was to reduce trade transaction costs in APEC economies by 5% between 2006 and 2010. For the Final Assessment of TFAP II, the PSU has c... ...ignificant variation in the nature and extent of its application. These economies were: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Japan, the Republic of Korea, ... ...us or regular basis for both imports and exports. Even then, only two APEC economies — Australia and Japan — have surveyed both of the major transp...

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...ave been marked by great discoveries. Molecular biology described the genetic principles underlying species evolution and identified specific changes in the human genome since our lineage split off from the chimpanzee line about six million years ago (Somel M, 2013). Great paleontological discoveries have filled that span of six million years of human evolution with a numb...

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...This report provides a basic understanding of the logistics situation of local/regional logistics sub-providers in the APEC region, and summarizes the key growth issues these SME companies are facing. It also indicative of the evolving focus of APEC initiatives from resolving border issues, to investigating and resolving behind-the-bor...

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..._______________________________________ 3 Results: SME Logistics Services in the APEC Region __________________________________ 3 1. What is an SME ... ...____________________________________________________ 3 Logistics Services in Different APEC Economies _______________________________________________... ...__________________________________________ 7 Measuring Government Support in APEC Economies _____________________________________________ 8 General ... ...emented to support trade and regional economic capacity building. Japan’s 2010 report on “APEC 2010 Economies’” progress towards the Bogor goals sin... ...reduction in tariffs, with the simple average applied tariff rate for the 2010 economies falling from 8.2% in 1996 to 5.4% in 2008, well below the w... ...lize trade was specifically promulgated in the APEC Leaders’ Statement on 2010 Bogor Goals Assessment in the 18 th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting. ... ...ort prepared by Japan on 14 November, 2010. APEC 2010 Economies refers to Australia; Canada; Japan; New Zealand; the United States; Chile; Hong Kong... ...ent and small and medium enterprise respondents in twelve APEC economies: Australia; Brunei; Canada; Chile; Chinese Taipei; Hong Kong, China; Japan;... ...ts. Economy Workforce Size Annual Income Capital Investment Notes Australia Less than 20 USD 81 - 650K Enterprise qualifies by meeting on...

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...The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the wo...

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Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

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... and earth science and technology Our Ownership Hawaii Business is printed in Hawai‘i by Hagadone Printing Company on post-consumer recycled paper us... ...offset by carbon credits. is part of This special edition of was produced in cooperation with the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee. PUBLISHER David ... ...waii Business at store.pacifcbasin.net To keep informed about Innovation in Hawai‘i, email innovation@hawaiibusiness.com Or visit hawaiibusiness.c... ...s among the Top 10 in the United States for solar-power installations in 2010. Even in fog, Sopogy creates clean energy After designing and protot... ...1 · HAWAII BUSINESS BREAK 1 and investors around the world. In December 2010, Sopogy signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s Yu Hao Lon... ...echnology can be used anywhere. We’re looking at opportunities in Japan, Australia, the Pacifc Islands, you name it.” The Sopogy technology is idea... ...PACIFIC BIODIESEL AND ISTOCK 29 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS Argentina • Australia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bhutan • Bosnia-Herz... ...ed as America’s happiest state in the Gallup- Healthways Well-Being Index, 2010 and 2011. Kaua‘i County Population: 67,091 PHOTO: GOOGLE MAPS 37 APE... ...0, most of whom came from APEC economies: JAPAN 1,239,481 CANADA 406,452 AUSTRALIA 143,742 KOREA 81,920 CHINA 63,032 NEW ZEALAND 18,050 TAIWAN 15,66...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ... our personal comfort is more important. A few years ago Lincoln Hall, an Australian, was in a group climbing Mount Everest. He was injured. His part... ...rding to the United Nations Human Development Index are: Norway, Iceland, Australia, Ireland and Sweden, with the U.S. at number 8 and the UK at 18.... ...he UK, Ireland and most other European countries give four weeks, as does Australia. Brazil gives four and a half weeks, but Columbia and New Zeala... ...―Things were getting worse in the latter part of the last century, then by 2010 the states‘ budgets were $350 billion in the hole. The worldwide rece... ...0 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its goals for 2010. One goal was the complete elimination in children of blood lead leve... ...children of blood lead levels of 10 micrograms per deciliter or higher by 2010. Commonly lead is absorbed into the body from lead based paint, espec...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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