(EGM) Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia - Unido

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The themes of the EGM have been carefully selected in an attempt to capture the essential problems, policy challenges and mechanisms for generating policy solutions for economies and industrial sectors operating under different dynamic conditions and moving along different trajectories. The competition for recently diminished flows of FDI is increasingly intense – and the sharing of valuable experience and best practise derived from success in attracting FDI, informed research and the latest thinking on the dynamics of FDI and the behaviour of Multinational Enterprises is vitally important. The strategies of developing countries attempt to enable their economies to compete more effectively for FDI using a variety of policy designs, frameworks and instruments that, in application, create differing characteristics in their FDI climates. The Asian experience of FDI holds significant lessons for other developing regions. This particularly so with respect to path dependency; and the role of the state in integrating the local and regional economies with the global economy. This EGM, through its discursive process will assist in advancing the state-of- the art in policy making. I have just attended the Second International Investment Promotion Forum held in Tianjin, China during 17 – 18 March which was hosted by the authorities of the Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area. That Investment Promotion Forum demonstrates that -- even with its impressive flows of FDI -- China is not standing still in its attempt to enhance its institutional skills, policy knowledge and promotional capability in matters related to FDI. The need for increasing capacity and capability, knowledge and skills through shared experience and practise is therefore absolutely necessary and UNIDO is privileged to be able to facilitate an EGM such as this in order to assist developing countries. Permit me to make one or two indications about the faculty of Experts that UNIDO has gathered for the purpose of this EGM. Knowledge and practise are intricately woven together and the body of the knowledge and the practise of FDI encapsulated by the Experts here is considerable. You will get to know them collectively and individually in the course of the next three working days. They represent collectively authorship of over 80 books and over 300 articles on FDI. Collectively they are responsible for over 1500 citations in the discipline of the international business of FDI. Individually, we have among us leading consultants to leading corporations and the international agencies – and each has published an authoritative work on the subject in the last five years. Our Experts have contributed to the international thinking not 64
only of UNIDO but also other UN specialised agencies including UNCTAD, and regional multi- lateral organisations such as ASEAN and regional development organisations including the Asian Development Bank. It is our hope that the EGM will result in valuable exchange of views on the dynamic factors underlying the asymmetries in FDI flows and provide viable responses to issues regarding the magnitude of FDI effects, and the changing nature of the linkages within the new knowledge- based economy. These issues, I am sure you will agree, have major implications for developing countries at various levels. I would very much like to express our thanks to the Secretary General of the Thailand Board of Investment – His Excellency Satit Sirirangkamanont for the co-operation that he has enabled his organisation to extend to this EGM. Thank you Secretary General. With your permission, it is now time to proceed with the agenda and programme of Electing the Chairmen and rapporteur; and adopting the Programme by acclaim. Thank you. 65
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Foreign Direct Investment in Southe
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Abbreviations and Acronyms ADB Asia
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thinkers and writers on FDI and mat
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The realignment of structural facto
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Recent years have seen increasing c
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overlap according to production pro
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Page 18 and 19: Theme 2 FDI and National Experience
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Page 22 and 23: major determinant of success. This
Page 24 and 25: and viii) general foreign investor
Page 26 and 27: Investment policy craft -- creating
Page 28 and 29: policies, as they would treat forei
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Page 36 and 37: Theme 4 FDI and the China Dimension
Page 38 and 39: greater regional collaboration, the
Page 40 and 41: The increasing significance of outs
Page 42 and 43: aise their own finance like any oth
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Page 70 and 71: ABSTRACT This working paper discuss
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Page 96 and 97: 94 Appendix II - ASEAN Investment C
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