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



Current Issues on Industry, Trade and Investment
No. 1 (ST/ESCAP/2276)




CONTENTS


Abbreviations
  1. THE IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBALIZATION, INCLUDING
    INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, ON INDUSTRIAL
    DIVERSIFICATION AND IMPROVED COMPETITIVENESS
    OF MANUFACTURING: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
    IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    1. Introduction
    2. Structural changes in manufacturing
    3. Promoting regional and global linkages of
      manufacturing
    4. Industrial restructuring and diversification through
      cross country flows of capital and investments
    5. Small and medium-sized enterprises and globalization
      process
    6. Conclusions and recommendations
    References
  2. ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND INDUSTRIAL
    PRODUCTION NETWORKING: ASIA'S PROSPECTS
    AND CHALLENGES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    1. Introduction
    2. Economic integration, foreign direct investment,
      trade of manufactured products and regional
      industrial restructuring
    3. Forging horizontal and vertical linkages in industry:
      promoting production networks through large, medium and small enterprise linkage and clustering
    4. Challenges and prospects of globalization for industrial
      progress and production networking in Asian
      developing economies
    5. Future challenges and actions for industrial progress
      and integration and production networking
  3. PROMOTING BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY INCUBATION
    FOR IMPROVED COMPETITIVENESS OF SMALL AND
    MEDIUM INDUSTRIES: WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
    1. General observations
    2. Lessons of experience: China, India and the Republic
      of Korea
    3. Participating countries experience and national
      recommendations: Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Lao
      People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Nepal
      and Viet Nam
    4. Overall recommendations of the workshops
  4. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FOR EXPORT PROMOTION IN SOUTH ASIA
    1. General observations: South Asia
    2. Global economic developments and the recent
      economic situation in South Asia
    3. Private sector development and export performance
    4. Conclusions and issues for consideration
  5. FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING
    ECONOMIES OF ASIA: ESCAP'S EFFORTS IN BUILDING
    NATIONAL CAPACITIES FOR ATTRACTING FOREIGN
    DIRECT INVESTMENT
    1. Introduction
    2. Foreign direct investment in developing Asia
    3. ESCAP work in the area of investment
    4. Looking into the future
    5. Summary and conclusions
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Last updated: 29 December 2003