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The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Main objective: support sustainable economic growth and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. APEC was publicly broached by former Prime Minister of Australia, Bob Hawke, during a speech in Seoul, Korea on 31 January 1989. The founding members were: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the United States. In these days, APEC has more than 20 members.
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China continues to gleam with a number of superlatives to its name in 2014. Of the 15 largest world economies, it possesses the highest GDP year-over-year growth rate at 7.8%. It also has the third ...

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The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) and America, and sometimes simply the States, is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal ...

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