Mapping Canada's Footprint in Asia

Download or read book Mapping Canada's Footprint in Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Canada doing in Asia? What are Canadian enterprises doing in Asia? The answer is quite a lot, but getting to this answer was not easy. Comprehensive, easily-accessible information pertaining to Canada's investment, trade, and human capital flows in Asia is unclear, lacks aggregation, and is not readily available to the public. As a result, the narrative concerning Canada's footprint in Asia is incomplete and unfocused, much to the detriment of Canadian business as well as Asian market economies. To address this, the CanAsia mapping project tracks Canadian presence in Asia by aggregating and analyzing publically available country- and Canadian company-level data. The project establishes where we are, proposes where we want to be, and charts how we get there. For the purposes of the project, a sample group of countries (the "A-16") was chosen that includes the six major Asian economies-China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea (Korea)-and the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Furthermore, the project contextualizes engagement with the region by benchmarking Canadian performance against that of comparator countries such as the United States, Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.