Expanding role of micro, small, and medium enterprises provide opportunities for sustainable development

'With our established expertise in technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and green development, Canada has an opportunity to strengthen MSME competitiveness and participation in cross-border production and trade in the digital economy.'

APEC Ministerial Meeting Plenary Opening Session in 2013. A four-year project, the APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership is a 'demonstration of Canada's renewed investment' in the MSME space, designed to 'build and grow' the MSME community in the region, write Vilupti Lok Barrineau and Gisèle Yasmeen. U.S. State Department photo by William Ng

Opinion

BY GISèLE YASMEEN, VILUPTI LOK BARRINEAU

September 12, 2017

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is home to 40 per cent of the world’s population, 50 per cent of global trade, and 60 per cent of global GDP. Over the last quarter century, APEC has shaped and transformed the global economy and supported half a billion people in their rise out of poverty. F...

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