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



Promoting Complementarities and Investment in Selected Manufacturing Sectors:
Resource-Based Industries and Poverty Alleviation
(ST/ESCAP/2196)



CONTENTS
  1. INTRODUCTION
    1. Brief overview of international and regional
      development
    2. Growth of manufacturing value added
    3. Sectoral composition of GDP and employment
    4. Growth rate of manufacturing exports
    5. New and emerging manufacturing subsectors
    6. Need for strengthening resource-based industries

  2. POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION
    1. Introduction
    2. Recent performance of selected groups of
      economies
    3. Unbalanced development and persistence
      of poverty in rural areas
    4. Need for rural industrialization

  3. RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION THROUGH PROMOTION
    OF AGRO-BASED INDUSTRIES
    1. Introduction
    2. Food processing industries
    3. Fruit and vegetable processing industries
    4. Marine-resource processing industries

  4. PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN RESOURCE-BASED
    INDUSTRIALIZATION
    1. Introduction
    2. Infrastructure
    3. Skills
    4. Technology
    5. Support services

  5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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Last updated: 4 April 2002