Plugging Into Production Networks

Ikuo Kuroiwa, Visiting Scholar, National University of Singapore and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economics (IDE-JETRO) in Japan. Toh Mun Heng, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore Business School

• 1. Introduction by Ikuo Kuroiwa; PART I: Overview of Production Networks in Less Developed Southeast Asia; 2. Expansion of the Production Networks into the Less Developed ASEAN Region: Implications for Development Strategy by Fukunari Kimura; 3. Production Networks and Industrial Policy in Less Developed Southeast Asia by Ikuo Kuroiwa; 4. ASEAN Economic Integration and Implication for CLMV Countries by Denis Hew, Sanchita Basu Das, and Rahul Sen; PART II: Case Studies; 5. Industrialization Strategy of Laos: Agglomeration and Fragmentation by Motoyoshi Suzuki; 6. Export-oriented Garment Manufacturing and Its Impact on Employment, Productivity and Wages in Cambodia and Laos by Rajah Rasiah; 7. FDI and Economic Integration in Vietnam by Tuan Bui; 8. Border Industry in Myanmar: Plugging into Production Networks through Border Industry by Toshihiro Kudo and Ikuo Kuroiwa; 9. The Batam, Bintan, Karimun Special Economic Zone: Revitalizing Domestic Industrialization and Linking Global Value Chain by Toh Mun Heng and Ng Kwan Kee.