Trade and Investment Division
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)


Industrial and Technological Development News
for Asia and the Pacific (ST/ESCAP/2126)



CONTENTS
Chapter
  1. Foreign direct investment, regional economic
    integration and efficiency-seeking industrial
    restructuring in Asia: Trends, patterns and prospects


  2. New approaches to trade and investment policies in
    Asia and the Pacific


  3. Information and communications technologies for
    poverty reduction in the Asia-Pacific region


  4. Technological conditions and issues in promoting
    integration of industrial activities at the regional
    and global levels: Prospects and challenges of
    globalization and liberalization


  5. The Republic of Korea's industrial development,
    globalization and the prospects for regional and
    global integration


  6. Integration of industrial activities at the regional
    and global levels: The experience of the Philippines


  7. Integration of industrial activities at the regional
    and global levels: The experience of Malaysia


  8. Activities of the International Trade and Industry
    Division
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Last updated: 24 April 2002