Service Module 3 Industrial competitiveness and trade

Service Module 3 Industrial competitiveness and trade

A. Industrial and technological growth and competitiveness

(e) Capacity building services to support the increased competitiveness of the industrial sector.

Industrial competitiveness has soared, owing to much higher gas prices in Europe and Asia.

From German cars to French luxury goods, European industrial competitiveness should not be underestimated.

(b) Efficient use of process heat and steam reduces industrial fuel consumption resulting in productivity increases, lower energy bills and improved industrial competitiveness

The Government also sought to increase industrial competitiveness, to reduce poverty by developing small scale and agro industries and to pursue environmentally sustainable industrial development.

The technical cooperation services in industrial governance are directly linked to and benefit from the other three programme components on research, competitiveness surveys and industrial statistics.

38. Recent industrial globalization trends have resulted in the emergence of a new paradigm of competition and competitiveness.

It is through those indigenous capacities and related skills that developing countries can systematically pursue industrial growth and build up their current and future industrial competitiveness or development strength.

A common market including harmonized policies for free movement of factors of production will enhance competitiveness, industrial development, and productivity.

In order to enhance Brazilian industry s export competitiveness, industrial policy must support a transition to high value products and services.

It supported the programmes relating in particular to the strengthening of productive capacities, investment promotion, SMEs, agro industry and industrial competitiveness.

A new effort would help Europe to replace its agricultural policy with a research and development policy aimed at boosting industrial competitiveness.

37. Industrial and technological growth and competitiveness are key prerequisites for the attainment of overall socio economic development by the developing countries.

The recent downturn in France s industrial output has created large trade deficits, and is undermining the competitiveness of small and medium size enterprises.

Phase I of an integrated programme, concerned with private sector development, industrial competitiveness and environmentally friendly production, had been successfully completed in 2004.

Measures to facilitate capacity building will be identified in order to enhance the productivity, competitiveness and environmental compatibility of service, industrial and agricultural outputs.

The UNIDO industrial statistics database is also the empirical basis for UNIDO technical cooperation and research activities and in particular for the Industrial Development Scoreboard, for the database on productivity and the preparation of competitiveness surveys.

40. At the policy and institutional levels, UNIDO provides advice to Governments and other actors on strategies for industrial and technological development, and policies conducive to creating an enabling environment for achieving accelerated industrial growth and industrial competitiveness, with special emphasis on enhanced private sector development.

Specifically, the networking of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large manufacturing firms through production linkages is an indispensable dimension of industrial resilience and competitiveness.

International competitiveness and enhanced export capability must be a key objective for African enterprises in those industrial subsectors where specific countries have a comparative advantage.

Competitiveness Surveys

Global competitiveness.

A key issue is the mobilization of effective financial resources, particularly venture capital, which are urgently required not only for industrial restructuring and investment but also for strengthening the basic physical infrastructure for industrial competitiveness. B. Global trends

Though many developing countries are attempting to mobilize their own endogenous technological resources, the importance to domestic industrial competitiveness of technologies developed elsewhere cannot be underestimated.

This component includes the production and diffusion of the UNIDO Industrial Development Scoreboard and the preparation of competitiveness surveys and diagnoses at national, regional and sectoral levels.

Industrial competitiveness, management know how, export marketing access and technology transfer were some of the benefits that came to developing countries through this rise in foreign capital.

Climate and Competitiveness

Europe s Competitiveness Obsession

Despite a push by Brazil s development bank, BNDES, to shore up competitiveness and promote the formation of larger, multinational industrial firms, Brazil s manufacturing position has continued to decline.

6. Requests the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to give full assistance to improving the competitiveness of the industrial sector in Africa and to formulating measures to improve it in the light of the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations

OFDI and enterprise competitiveness

Enhancing productivity and competitiveness

Enterprise competitiveness and development

Enterprise competitiveness and development

Investment and enterprise competitiveness

Does OFDI increase competitiveness of firms and how could competitiveness from OFDI be measured?

4. Reiterate that the major means of achieving the UNIDO objectives of environmentally sustainable and equitable industrial development remain investment promotion technology transfer the development of human resources and the creation of an enabling environment, both nationally and internationally, for industrial growth and competitiveness

The Centre would make it possible to meet long standing needs for assessment of the quality of industrial products, which was a key factor of competitiveness in the globalized world.

A series of capacity building programmes involving training in the use of UNIDO's methodology for industrial diagnosis and trade competitiveness analysis are under way, with a focus on Latin America.

The implementation of the MTPF in the area of industrial competitiveness and trade has focused on trade capacity building through technical cooperation activities to help developing countries and transition economies

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Indian OFDI and SME competitiveness