The New APEC Agenda: Inclusive and Sustainable Growth is More Important than Integration

... Russia, Indonesia and China – all major global players whose ambitions reach far beyond the region’s boundaries. These countries, being members of G20, were able to link the work of APEC with issues on the global economic agenda. In 2015, APEC chairmanship passed to the Philippines, one of the region’s developing economies. Its priorities are largely domestic: the fight against poverty and inequality; food shortage; the low level of education; and an underdeveloped infrastructure crippled not only by the shortage ...