Stephen Jacobi, NZIBF Executive Director, speaks to the Confederation of Indian Industry Partnership Summit in New Delhi about The Future of Multilateralism.
ABAC NZ wants to hear the policy views of New Zealand business and to use these to shape ABAC’s recommendations to APEC. The three New Zealand Members will sit alongside counterparts from APEC’s 21 economies and speak directly to APEC’s Economic Leaders. The views advanced by New Zealand business will inform the perspectives communicated by the three New Zealand Members, and in that way, help advance the ABAC work programme.
APEC is particularly relevant to the $50 billion Māori economy. Engaging Māori business with ABAC’s agenda will help make our work more relevant and responsive to Māori economic concerns and development aspirations. Our hope is that improving the visibility of the Māori economy within ABAC will also help raise the visibility of indigenous people across the region.
Three broad themes have been developed to carry the business conversation in ABAC in a way that is both distinctive and relevant:
Tāngata, Taiao me te Taurikura (People, Place and Prosperity).
These themes provide an umbrella for more specific topics that ABAC NZ is developing for ABAC as a whole.
The following diagrams illustrate how ABAC NZ’s priorities as Chair will translate into the ABAC work programme carried out by ABAC’s five working groups in the areas of Regional Economic Integration, Sustainability, Inclusion, Digital and Economy.
ABAC NZ is keen to hear from NZ business sectors about their interests in the ABAC work programme in 2021.
This year, ABAC has adopted the theme “Embrace. Engage. Enable.”
Embrace the reconnected world with endless opportunities.
Enable in collaborating on new ideas, creativities, and possibilities.
Engage digitised, sustainable, and inclusive new transformational models.
The 2022 work programme will focus on the following priorities:
Regional Economic Integration Working Group
Digital Working Group
MSME and Inclusiveness Working Group
Sustainability Working Group
Finance and Economics Working Group
Detailed recommendations will be developed during the course of 2022 on the priorities identified in the work programme. ABAC’s recommendations will be conveyed to APEC governments through a range of avenues including to APEC Senior Officials, Trade SME and Finance Ministers and directly to APEC Economic Leaders at the annual Dialogue with APEC Leaders.
The ABAC USA theme for 2023 is “Equity. Sustainability. Opportunity.”
The 2023 Work Program will have the following initial areas of focus:
Economic Integration Working Group
Sustainable Growth Working Group
Digital and Innovation Working Group
Finance Task Force
Inclusion Task Force
Detailed recommendations will be developed during the course of the 2023 focus areas identified in the work program. ABAC’s recommendations will be conveyed to APEC governments through a range of avenues including to APEC Senior Officials, Trade, SME and Finance Ministers and directly to APEC Economic Leaders at the annual Dialogue with APEC Leaders.
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