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Appendix II: Opening Statement by the Secretary-General of Thai Board ofInvestmentMr. Satit SirirangkamanontDistinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: it is my great honour to open and welcome you tothe united nations industrial development organization expert group meeting on foreign directinvestment in Southeast Asia. This conference, jointly implemented by UNIDO and theThailand board of investment, will examine the experiences and future policy implications forattracting FDI among developing countries.We are all aware that foreign direct investment is one of the most crucial drivers of industrialdevelopment, competitive industrial performance, and the capacity to trade among developingcountries. in this challenging era of globalization, the nations of Southeast Asia have beenparticularly effective in competing for and attracting FDI. The successful Asian developmentexperience, and the central part played by FDI in-flows and their linkages to domesticinvestment, holds significant lessons for other developing regions. The Asian experience willcontinue to develop policy coherence that is well-attuned to prevailing economic conditions andarticulated by policy-makers according to local, regional, and global investment dynamics.Therefore, the assumed outcomes of this EGM are as follows:First, to meet the needs of developing countries for improvement of national policy, strategiesand regulatory frameworks for industrial development promotion.Second, to build institutional capacities in developing countries with respect to making availablestrategies for integrating their industrial sectors, through FDI, with global production networks.and, third, this EGM will create a global public good in the form of publication of itsdeliberations, conclusions and policy messages.While examining such specific themes as“Foreign direct investment & multinational enterprises in Southeast Asia”“Intra-regional FDI, regional trade, and investment”and,“Capital markets and FDI in Southeast Asia”.This EGM will most importantly provide a free-ranging, specialized dialogue among experts andpolicy-makers on FDI-related matters and their effects on industrial development strategies.58
This type of deep information exchange and knowledge sharing will assist the participatingpolicy-makers to facilitate and promote FDI co-operation among developing countries.This EGM falls within the service delivery framework of UNIDO’s corporate strategy andpriorities for 2004-2007, so, in many ways, we are at the beginning of a long road forward.As such, this meeting is aimed at assisting developing countries in several key ways:To match their FDI performance to their FDI potential; and to match their industrial capacity totheir industrial complexity.The overall objective of this EGM is to enable policy-makers and government officials to workwith members of the FDI policy community from Southeast Asia, as well as from otherdeveloping regions, to use advanced investment and manufacturing policy analysis, research,instruments and modalities to become more competitive in attracting FDI, as well as tomaximize the impact of FDI in-flows on industrial growth trajectories.Our discussions these next few days will help to meet the needs of developing countries forimprovement of national policy strategies and regulatory frameworks for investment andindustrial promotion. just as critically, this EGM will improve the quality of UNIDO advisoryand enabling services by advancing a “state-of-the-art” policy for FDI and expanding the linksamong UNIDO, practitioners and policy-makers.Last week, I was honoured to be among the speakers at the international investment promotionforum in Tianjin, china, where I outlined the strategy and construction of the board ofinvestment. Joining speakers from UNIDO and other ADI experts, I was able to highlight thewide-ranging role the BOI has played for almost four decades of developing foreign anddomestic direct investment in Thailand. We are very eager to openly share our experiences –both positive and negative – to assist our regional neighbours, as well as other countries, todevelop their own relevant national economic agendas.So, ladies and gentlemen, I am especially pleased that Thailand has the opportunity to serve asthe host country for the next three days of stimulating, effective, and necessary discussion.Once again, I want to welcome you to this expert group meeting -- and to Thailand.Thank you.59
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PrefaceThis UNIDO report presents t
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Page 11 and 12: IntroductionThe Changing Face of Fo
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