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and practitioners in other developing countries to share in your experience -- and given the relative successes of the region in FDI -- to learn from what is possible, what the key emerging issues are and what policy mechanisms are available to assist in overcoming some of the problems of industrialisation. Secretary General of the Thailand Board of Investment, Distinguished Delegates and Participants, Experts, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Asian experience holds significant lessons for other developing regions. It is the Director General’s hope that this UNIDO EGM will assist in advancing the ‘state-of-the-art’ for FDI policy in relation to industrial development and the technical co-operation delivered by UNIDO to its Member States. It is my hope that the experience of these three days will draw us closer in international co-operation. Once again, I welcome you; and I wish you a successful meeting; and I thank the Secretary General of the Thailand Board of Investment, His Excellency Satit Sirirangkamanont for the hospitality extend to UNIDO, Experts and Participants. 62
Appendix IV: Opening Statement by UNIDO EGM Project Manager Mr. Frank Bartels - Senior Industrial Development Officer Secretary General of the Thailand Board of Investment -- Your Excellency Satit Sirirangkamanont, Distinguished Delegates and Participants, Experts, Ladies and Gentlemen, as Project Manager for this EGM, I am delighted to be here and to extend a warm welcome to you all. I am looking forward, as I trust you are, to a serious engagement with the issues of FDI in industrialisation, the themes of the EGM and outcomes that are valuable to us. The gestation of this EGM has necessarily taken sometime in order to bring together the requisite quality of Experts, Commentators and high-level Participants to make this exercise in international co-operation worthwhile. The UNIDO Regional Office and the Thailand Board of Investment have assisted in the organisational requirements – and for their assistance I extend the appreciation and thanks of UNIDO Headquarters, and those of the Investment and Technology Promotion Branch. The role of investment in economic development and industrialisation relates to UNIDO’s own analysis which identifies FDI as one of the key drivers of a country’s industrial organisation and competitive industrial performance, as well as of its capacity to engage in international trade and to absorb increasing levels of technology -- and with it higher levels of value-added FDI. UNIDO’s analysis shows that Southeast Asia attracted on average 7.0% of annual global FDI flows in the 1980s and 14.7% in the 1990s. Latin America -- the other best performing region -- attracted 7.9% and 9.4%, while Sub-Saharan Africa only 1.2% and 0.8% in the same periods. To compete effectively for FDI through viable policies and instruments, the sharing of international experience, in forum like this one, is essential. This EGM, which is a manifest part of the UNIDO’s mandate that gives a prominent place to investment and the special industrialisation challenges confronted by developing countries marginalised from global investment flows, will enable UNIDO to continue to enhance the delivery of its capacity-building enabling services to developing countries. By engaging with the latest thinking and views on the challenges of FDI and the policy prescriptions available to address those challenges, the efforts of developing countries will be enhanced and reinforced through UNIDO’s global forum activities. 63
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