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Annex 2 – Summary Of The APEC EoDB Action Plan (2010-2015)

APEC’s Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) Action Plan was launched in 2009 to improve the business environment in the Asia-Pacific region by promoting regulatory reforms that make it cheaper, faster and easier to do business.  The Action Plan takes as a starting basis the World Bank’s Doing Business report. Based on inputs from the business sector and member economies, five priority areas were identified from amongst the 10 areas covered by the World Bank’s report to help focus APEC’s efforts.

Priority Area

Activity

Beneficiaries

Starting a Business

Phase 1: Workshop on reducing start-up and establishment time of businesses (Hiroshima,  March 2010)

All Economies

Phase 2:

  • Diagnostic study (2010)
  • Diagnostic studies (2011)
  • Diagnostic studies (2013)
  • Diagnostic study (2014)

 

Indonesia

Thailand & Peru

Viet Nam & Papua New Guinea

Brunei Darussalam

Getting Credit

Phase 1: Seminar on “Getting Credit for SMEs” (Sendai, September 2010)

All Economies

Phase 2:

  • Diagnostic study in terms of strengthening the secured lending (2011)
  • Roundtable meeting with legal and economic experts (2012)
  • Diagnostic on SME financing (2013)
  • Workshop on Getting Credit (2013)

Thailand

Chinese Taipei

Indonesia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enforcing Contracts

Phase 1: APEC Workshop on Enforcing Contracts (Seoul, June 2010) 

All Economies

Phase 2:

  • Diagnostic Study (2011)
  • Workshops on Enforcing Contracts (2011)
  • 1st APEC International Conference on Enforcing Contracts (2011)
  • Diagnostic Study (2012)
  • Workshops on Enforcing Contracts (2012)
  • 2nd APEC International Conference on Enforcing Contracts (2012)
  • Diagnostic Study
  • Workshop on Enforcing Contracts (2013)
  • 3rd APEC International Conference on Enforcing Contracts (2013)
  • Diagnostic Study (2014)

Indonesia & Peru

All Economies

Thailand & The Philippines

All Economies

Viet Nam & Brunei Darussalam

All Economies

Mexico

Trading Across Borders

Phase 1: Workshop on Trading Across Borders (Sendai, September 2010)

All Economies

Phase 2:

  • Diagnostic Studies (2011)
  • Diagnostic Study (2013)

Peru & Mexico

 Vietnam

Dealing with Construction Permits

Phase 1: Workshop on Reforming the Regulatory System for Construction Permits (Singapore, October 2010)

All Economies

Phase 2:

  • Diagnostic Studies (2011-2013)
  • Diagnostic Studies (2014)

 

Indonesia, Peru & Thailand

Brunei Darussalam

1st Stocktake Workshop  (Moscow, February 2012)

2st Stocktake Workshop  (Beijing, August 2014)

All economies

Phase 1- Workshops: Overview seminars implemented by champion economies with the objective to deepen understanding, share experiences and discuss best practices to improve the business environment in each of the five priority areas.

Phase 2 - Diagnostic studies: Studies or programs tailored to the volunteer economy’s needs in the priority area, to identify areas for improvement and develop customized, practical recommendations and implementation plans. These activities are developed in cooperation with the relevant champion economies. During the diagnostic studies and implementation of recommendations, technical experts often work very closely with government agencies responsible for developing, implementing, and enforcing policies and regulations related to EoDB.

Stocktake workshops: Workshops organized on the margins of the Economic Committee meetings to present the status of progress in accomplishing the APEC-wide EoDB objective, share experiences and best practices among member economies on EoDB related reforms, and discuss on possible APEC future work on EoDB.