This second Policy Report of the APEC International Assessment Network (APIAN) updates and expands upon the first APIAN Policy Report, Learning From Experience (November 2000). In this progress report, APIAN – a collaborative, independent project among participating APEC Study Centers - intends its recommendations to be timely during 2001-2002 when APEC leaders meet first in Shanghai, China and then in Los Cabos, Mexico.

• Executive Summary
• Preface
• Introduction Progress and Standstill since Brunei
• Trade Liberalization Investment and Facilitation (TILF): Updating the Agenda
• Economic and Technical Assistance (ECOTECH): Steps Forward
• Institutional Structure: Laying the Building Blocks
• Appendices