• The Workshop on International Investment Agreements, held from 5-9 May in Singapore, focused on the scope, content, and negotiation of the new investment agreements for officials in APEC member economies responsible for the negotiation and implementation of investment agreements to promote familiarity with those subjects.
• The Seminar on Good Governance on Investment Promotion, held from 19-20 May, in Lima, Peru focused on the analysis and proposal of necessary instruments to improve good governance on investment promotion as a way to improve favorable investment climate in APEC region.
• The Seminar on Recent Trends on Investment Liberalization and Facilitation in Transport and Telecommunications Infrastructure was held for 13-14 August, 2008 in Lima, Peru. The seminar explored the performance of Investment Promotion Agencies with respect to the implementation of infrastructure development policies in APEC member economies.
• The Seminar for Capacity Building for Sharing Success Factors of Improvement of Investment Environment was held for 15-16 August, 2008 in Lima, Peru. In this public-private sector discussion, participants shared successful experiences of increased investment and discussed investment treaties, investment-related policies and trade in services.

  
When they met in Arequipa in June 2008, Peru APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade endorsed the Investment Facilitation Action Plan for 2008-2010. The Investment Experts' Group is expected to play an important role in implementing the Action Plan.

• The 2nd Workshop on International Investment Agreements for APEC member economies will take place in October, 2008 in Washington, D.C. to promote familiarity among APEC member economies focusing on investor-state arbitration under the new international investment agreements.
• The APEC-UNCTAD Joint Capacity Building Project for Addressing Knowledge Gaps in the Use of Foreign Direct Investment (Stage 1 and 2) will select four APEC member economies as examples for best practices and case studies in four topics areas (i.e., electricity, roads, extractive industries and SMEs). It will be finalized and published by June 2009.
• Building upon the outcome of its Phase 1 study, the Study of the Core Elements in Existing RTAs/FTAs and BITs (Phase 2) will expand its coverage and analysis.
• Ease of Doing Business: Investment at the Sub-National Level to Promote Domestic Economic Integration (Phase I) will complete three case studies at the sub-national level of successful efforts to overcome behind-the-border barriers to investment, drawing on the World Bank's expertise in using its Ease of Doing Business indicators as a diagnostic tool.