Regional Investment Pioneers In South Asia

Author : Sanjay Kathuria,Ravindra A. Yatawara,Xiao’ou Zhu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464815355

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Regional Investment Pioneers in South Asia by Sanjay Kathuria,Ravindra A. Yatawara,Xiao’ou Zhu Pdf

Regional economic engagement within South Asia may gain increasing importance owing to several factors that are currently in play, including strategies to diversify global value chains and locate such value chains nearer home. These developments offer South Asia a chance to enhance its low levels of regional economic engagement and capitalize on significant unrealized development opportunities. This report shows that examining intraregional investment and knowledge connectivity enhances our understanding of the low levels of intraregional trade and limited regional value chains in South Asia. Creating a new and unique data set for South Asian investment, it provides a detailed and nuanced understanding of the drivers of outward investment, both regional and global, for South Asian firms. “Regional Investment Pioneers in South Asia†? provides key considerations for policy makers in South Asia, which remain particularly relevant in the aftermath of the pandemic. First, it makes a case for regulatory relaxation of outward FDI regimes, based on new micro foundations, grounded in value chains. Second, it spells out details of smart inward FDI promotion techniques and investment facilitation. Third, it identifies distinct cross-border information-enhancing and network development activities. Fourth, it suggests that digital connectivity and continued interventions in reducing trade costs are warranted to increase investment as well as trade flows. There is particular scope to build on the digitalization initiatives in trade and investment facilitation taken during the pandemic. “Regional Investment Pioneers in South Asia†? follows on, and is complementary to, the earlier World Bank report, “A Glass Half Full: the Promise of Regional Trade in South Asia.†?

Author : Sanjay Kathuria,Ravindra A. Yatawara
Publisher : South Asia Development Forum
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464815348

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Investment Pioneers in South Asia by Sanjay Kathuria,Ravindra A. Yatawara Pdf

This report is framed within the same context as its predecessor, ?A Glass Half Full: The Promise of Regional Trade in South Asia," namely, the sub-optimal level of economic engagement within South Asia. It focuses on intraregional investment, from an outward investment lens, using a unifying framework of international engagement strategies.

Author : Choudhury Rahul Nath,Nayak Dinkar
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811206580

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Trade And Investment In South Asia: An Analysis by Choudhury Rahul Nath,Nayak Dinkar Pdf

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows started gaining traction in South Asia from the late 20th century onwards, when nations from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) began moving away from highly controlled regimes and adopting liberal and open economic policies.In the context of surplus labour and capital scarcity faced by South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, to varying degrees, the economic reform process has provided an opportunity to actively promote inward FDI flows, with the goal of providing the much-needed capital for the growth of this region. Several policy initiatives were undertaken to attract FDI and incentives were announced to fascinate investors, resulting in the inflow of FDI across the region.This book examines FDI inflows in SAARC nations in the light of regional policy changes in the 21st century. It investigates the relationship between trade and FDI in the region, and also provides insights into the ease of doing business in the SAARC region.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292547219

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Study on Intraregional Trade and Investment in South Asia by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This study broadens and deepens intraregional cooperation and integration in trade and investment among South Asian countries. It showcases the benefits of regional integration and presents an array of policy recommendations to maximize and realize such gains. Three parallel initiatives are needed: first, reduce nontariff barriers to deepen the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA); second, expand SAFTA's scope to include investments and services; and third, focus on key industries to succinctly demonstrate the process and benefits of reforms. These translate into six component studies: (i) the Role of Trade Facilitation in South Asian Economic Integration; (ii) Textile and Clothing Industry; and (iii) four country investment studies for Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The study invigorates the debate and focus on South Asian integration as a means to further growth and reduce poverty.

Author : Pravakar Sahoo,Geethanjali Nataraj,Ranjan Kumar Dash
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132215363

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Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia by Pravakar Sahoo,Geethanjali Nataraj,Ranjan Kumar Dash Pdf

During the 1990s, the governments of South Asian countries acted as ‘facilitators’ to attract FDI. As a result, the inflow of FDI increased. However, to become an attractive FDI destination as China, Singapore, or Brazil, South Asia has to improve the local conditions of doing business. This book, based on research that blends theory, empirical evidence, and policy, asks and attempts to answer a few core questions relevant to FDI policy in South Asian countries: Which major reforms have succeeded? What are the factors that influence FDI inflows? What has been the impact of FDI on macroeconomic performance? Which policy priorities/reforms needed to boost FDI are pending? These questions and answers should interest policy makers, academics, and all those interested in FDI in the South Asian region and in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

Author : Rupa Chanda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199088331

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Integrating Services in South Asia by Rupa Chanda Pdf

In this era of globalization, every region and country in the world is pursuing some kind of integration to further its economic, geo-political, and strategic interests. This book explores the prospects for and challenges to services integration in South Asia through an in-depth analysis of services such as telecommunications, energy, tourism, health, and education. Identifying trends in performance, policy issues, and the status of intra-regional trade and investment initiatives, the book argues the case for services integration under the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA). It also stresses the need to address cross-cutting issues of regional mobility of service providers, taxes, transport, trade, research and development, and regulatory cooperation. Expanding the existing work on South Asian integration to cover services from an intra-regional perspective, this book is an important reference for future academic and policy work in South Asia. The industry, country, and regional level statistics provided by the book serve as a useful resource for taking stock of output, employment, trade, and investment in services in this region.

Author : Sultan Hafeez Rahman,Sridhar K. Khatri,Hans-Peter Brunner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822039391404

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Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia by Sultan Hafeez Rahman,Sridhar K. Khatri,Hans-Peter Brunner Pdf

This book considers the leadership of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the interaction with civil society in the process of South Asian regional cooperation and integration, and discusses how the emerging urgency in the provision of regional public goods provides an excellent opportunity to add to the successes in South Asian regional integration.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789292542559

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Aid for Trade by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Aid for Trade came to prominence just over a decade ago at the launch of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round. With its focus on helping least developed countries and economies escape the poverty trap, it aims to strengthen their capabilities to meet market demand and to reduce supply-side constraints such as a lack of trade infrastructure. In accordance with that objective, this report lays out an applied framework for prioritizing potential trade-related interventions and investments according to the expected strength of their combined economic impacts. Along the way, and for the first time, the economic geography of northeastern South Asia has been comprehensively mapped. Computer-driven modeling provides a dynamic portrayal of the economic geography that is a resource for decision makers (and investors). By bringing to light new avenues yielding very high economic benefits for investment and reforms, the framework can give guidance for undertaking trade improvements under Aid for Trade on pilot projects within a national setting, between neighbors or spread to partners further afield. In all cases, the endeavor is the same: expressed in the metaphor of hard investment, it is to build bridges to export markets so that people in the economic periphery have a better opportunity to take poverty off their own maps.

Author : S. S. Colombage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Free trade
ISBN : UOM:39015042821325

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Regional Cooperation for Trade and Investment Promotion in South Asia by S. S. Colombage Pdf

Author : Shobhana Sosale,Graham Mark Harrison,Namrata Tognatta,Shiro Nakata
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464819674

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Engendering Access to STEM Education and Careers in South Asia by Shobhana Sosale,Graham Mark Harrison,Namrata Tognatta,Shiro Nakata Pdf

Building a skilled and diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is crucial for economic development, cross-border trade, and social inclusion in South Asia. However, underrepresentation of girls and women in STEM education and careers remains a persistent issue. What kinds of macro and micro socioeconomic interventions are needed to increase girls' and women's access to and participation in STEM education and careers in South Asia? This book compares trends in South Asia with global trends to examine how access to and choices of STEM fields affect girls' enrollment in upper secondary education, technical and vocational education and training, and higher education in the region as well as their selection of careers. Based on the analysis, it offers recommendations to policy makers and practitioners to improve inclusion. The following are among the findings: (1) The five key opportunities to foster inclusion and enrollment in STEM education--and staunch the 'leaky pipeline'--are at the upper primary, lower and upper secondary, and tertiary education levels, and during the early career years; (2) A strong pathway from STEM education to career depends on an integrated, systematic approach that motivates students to pursue STEM fields, builds STEM skills, and removes barriers to diversity; (3) With the increasing migration of workers between countries in South Asia, preparing a critical mass of semiskilled and skilled STEM migrant workers has cross-border value, especially for workers migrating from smaller to larger economies. New ways of defining STEM occupations are required to help develop and sustain female interest in STEM education and careers. Potential strategies that governments can pursue include raising awareness and building knowledge and skills in STEM outside the formal academic environment--such as in after-school programs, science fairs and competitions, and summer camps--and developing and systematically disseminating standardized resources. Inclusion and diversity must be championed by governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders who stand to benefit from more diverse workforces. Though women themselves would likely be credible champions, in South Asia they are often constrained by a range of factors. This report addresses some of those obstacles.

Author : Christine Zhenwei Qiang,Yan Liu,Victor Steenbergen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464816840

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An Investment Perspective on Global Value Chains by Christine Zhenwei Qiang,Yan Liu,Victor Steenbergen Pdf

This report investigates the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in helping developing countries participate in global value chains (GVCs). It combines the perspectives and strategies from three types of players: multinational corporations, domestic firms and governments. It aims to provide practical guidance for developing countries to develop strategies that use FDI to strengthen GVC participation and upgrading. The report has six main chapters: 1. FDI and GVCs. Assesses the trade-investment nexus and analyzes the effect of FDI in countries’ GVC participation and upgrading at the country level. 2. MNCs shape GVC development. Highlights MNCs' contribution to global economy and how their business strategies shape the evolution of GVCs. The chapter also compares MNCs' business strategies in terms of outsourcing and offshoring, risk mitigation and increasing market power across GVC archetypes. 3. Domestic firm perspectives on GVC participation. Looks at the various paths domestic firms can take to internationalize their production and trade. Investigates domestic firm characteristics that predict higher GVC participation, and the effect of GVC participation on firm performance. 4. Investment policy and promotion: what is in a government’s toolbox? Summarizes the various policy instruments governments have at their disposal to help attract MNCs to their country and facilitate GVC participation of domestic firms. 5. Integrating countries into GVCs. Draws on a range of case studies to illustrate how governments can develop coherent strategies and policy packages to integrate their countries into GVCs. 6. FDI and GVCs in the wake of COVID-19. Reflects the impact of COVID-19 on FDI and GVCs, the response from multinationals and suppliers, and the implications for GVC reconfiguration. In addition, there are seven case studies that offer more nuanced analysis on the GVC participation in selected countries and sectors: • Five qualitative case studies: Five countries have been selected that managed to use FDI to stimulate GVC participation using a range of approaches. By design, these five countries also cover five different GVC archetypes. These countries are: (1) Kenya (horticulture); (2) Dominican Republic (textiles); (3) Mauritius (tourism); (4) Malaysia (electronics); (5) China (software). • Two quantitative case studies: Rwanda, West-Bengal (India). These use a combination of firm- and transaction level datasets to study firm-level dynamics that explain the role of multinational and domestic firms across GVCs.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464819209

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South Asia Economic Focus by World Bank Pdf

South Asia is facing renewed challenges. The impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on food and energy prices on domestic inflation is long-lasting. Externally, countries’ current account balances deteriorate rapidly as imports rise on the back of economic recovery and rising inflation, remittances decline, and foreign capital flows out following monetary tightening in advanced economies. An economic slowdown in advanced economies and trading partners can also be a drag to the exports sector and remittances inflows, which many countries in the region depend on. These immediate challenges can translate to persistent deterrent to long-term growth and development. Higher energy prices already are changing the attitude of many countries outside the region about green transition and carbon reduction. The South Asia region is thus at a critical juncture. The theme chapter provides a deep dive into COVID-19 and migration. Migrant workers and remittances flows are important for South Asia as sources of income and means to smooth local income shocks for households, and as an important source of foreign reserves for the country. The pandemic changed the flows of migration, as some migrants had to return home and some had to stay in foreign countries due to COVID-related restrictions. The chapter studies the long-run trend of migration in the region, how COVID-19 impacted migration and remittance inflows, whether migration has (or has not) recovered, and proposes policies to address underlying problems.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada),Chia-Siow Yue,Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0889368066

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Multinationals and East Asian Integration by International Development Research Centre (Canada),Chia-Siow Yue,Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Pdf

Multinationals and East Asian Integration

Author : African Union Commission,OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264417595

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Africa's Development Dynamics 2023 Investing in Sustainable Development by African Union Commission,OECD Pdf

Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons from Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa to develop policy recommendations and share good practices across the continent. Drawing on the most recent statistics, the analysis of development dynamics aims to assist African leaders in reaching the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.

Author : Robin Coningham,Ruth Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521846974

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The Archaeology of South Asia by Robin Coningham,Ruth Young Pdf

This book synthesises the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE) to the third century BCE.