As a result of OFDI, more enterprises from developing countries are transnationalizing.

Internationalization of Developing Country Enterprises

This means that ODA will support home grown institutions instead of administering projects introduced from the outside.

Enterprises in Asia are investing abroad more than those of any other developing region, and are contributing to an OFDI stock that stood at 718 billion in 2004.

The forced dispatch of prisoners to work on overseas infrastructure projects raises new issues regarding China s human rights record.

Enterprises from many economies in East Asia and Southeast Asia are internationalizing further and faster through OFDI.

The foreign borrowing of Kazakh banks amounted to around 50 of GDP, with many of these funds used for construction projects.

UNCTAD has produced a series of country studies examining issues and developments related to internationalization of developing country enterprises through OFDI.

Experts made a number of specific recommendations to support internationalization of developing country enterprises, including SMEs, through OFDI.

Assistance to smaller firms with little experience in investment projects abroad and with limited financial means is particularly important, especially in the first stages of the investment process.

Chinese companies operating practice for overseas projects, including in Africa, is to keep the number of local workers to a bare minimum and to bring in much of the workforce from China, some of which comprises convicts freed on parole for project related overseas work.

OFDI examples include such enterprises as Haier in white goods industries and Huawei Technologies in electronics and IT activities.

There is room for developing country enterprises, including SMEs, to improve their understanding of the benefits, risks and challenges of OFDI.

Views from the outside

Training courses on internationalization could be provided for policymakers and managers of developing country enterprises, including events that would help raise awareness of the benefits of enterprise internationalization through OFDI.

Given the statistical limitations, this note draws on anecdotal evidence and the experiences of developing countries' enterprises in internationalization through OFDI.

Various country studies commissioned by UNCTAD indicate that developing country enterprises, including small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), are involved in OFDI.

Even many of the poorest countries seemed, at long last, to be joining in, posting strong growth on the back of rising energy and raw material prices, renewed mining investments from abroad, and increasing fiscal revenues.

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But even before convicts became part of China s overseas development effort, some Chinese projects, especially dam building schemes, were embroiled in disputes with local communities in Botswana, Burma, Pakistan, Ghana, and Sudan.

Meanwhile, immigration policies in the US and Europe are making it more difficult to attract and retain such workers, compelling companies to shift R D abroad to find the talent that they need.

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OFDI by Singapore SMEs is in most cases through greenfield and joint venture activities rather than cross border M As because of their financial positions and scale of their operations.

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Draft recommendations submitted by the Rapporteur

Draft recommendations submitted by the Rapporteur

The result was considerable innovation and institutionalization of local government services to support market activities, including outsourcing of expertise in infrastructure project design, administration, and operations to private and foreign consulting and design companies.

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First comes growth driven by foreign borrowing.

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To the extent that OFDI contributes to improving competitiveness, experts agreed that developing country governments should support the internationalization of their countries' enterprises and adopt appropriate policies.

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This has included projects in Chile, Paraguay, and several projects in Brazil.

Other SMEs with successful overseas ventures include B4U Multimedia International (which has music and entertainment channels in 50 countries), Cipla Ltd. (a small drug manufacturer) and ACE Laboratories (a pharmaceutical firm).

The main push factors included the following increased competition at home and abroad for developing countries' enterprises higher local production costs the growth of significant domestic players (national champions) and outward FDI liberalization policies.

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