Executive Summary

Agenda

Brief Biographies of Resource Persons and Staff

Speakers Presentations

● Tadashi IWASHITA, Senior Executive Director, Japan Bank for International Cooperation: Japan's Role for Economic Development in Asia and the Pacific

● Yong-Kyung LEE, President and CEO of Korea Telecom (KT): Telecommunication Infrastructure for Sustained Economic Development in the Age of Information Technology

● Hector LOZADA, Associate Professor of Marketing and Director of the Institute of International Business/SHU: Marketing a Country: The Quest to Attract FDI

● Akio MIKUNI, President, Mikuni & Co., Ltd.: The Prospect of Japan's Economy and its Implications to Other Countries in Asia and the Pacific

● Jason Z. YIN, Associate Professor of Management/SHU: FDI Diversion to China and Policy Options for Other Developing Countries in Asia and the Pacific

● Yeomin YOON, Professor of Finance and International Business/SHU and Senior Special Fellow of UNITAR: Globalization, Two Thousand Years in the Making, and its Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region

● Roundtable Discussion by all participants on  “A Primer on Foreign Direct Investment”:  Paper by Andrew B. KIM, Advisor, SIT International Investment Co.

Interactive Case Studies

● Expansion of ITC’s eChoupal Initiative in ASEAN Countries via FDI

● Investing in Vietnam – A Risk Worth Taking?

Team Presentations

● List of Team Members and Assigned Interactive Case Study

● Team I: Investing in Vietnam - A Risk Worth Taking? (Case A: KT Corporation)

● Team II: Expansion of ITC's eChoupal initiative in ASEAN Countries via FDI;  Handouts A, B, C

● Team III: Investment in Vietnam - A Risk Worth Taking? (Case B: SK Telecom)

● Team IV: Expansion of ITC's eChoupal Initiative in ASEAN Countries via FDI

Supplementary Materials

Web Sites:

● CzechInvest

● EDB Investments

● McKinsey&Company

Others:

● JBIC, Research and Analysis of Investment Environment Evaluation of Japanese & Western Electric and Electronics Manufacturers in Malaysia

● JBIC, Survey Report on Overseas Business Operations by Japanese Manufacturing Companies

● The Economist, April 24th 2004, Asia's Other Miracle

● The New York Times, February 17, 2004, Japanese Capital and Many Skilled Jobs Flow to China

● The Daily Yomiuri, Sunday 16, 2004. Francis Fukuyama, China : Global Citizen or Growing Menace?

● New Horizons: Multinational Company Investment in Developing Economies, October, 2003 (Summary), Retrieved from www.mckinsey.com (McKinsey&Company)

Cultural Briefing, Taiji HOTTA, Professor of Hiroshima University

● Japanese Culture and Development

● Japanese Culture and Development (Handouts)

  Reading Materials

● Reading List

● Reading Materials

Photo Album

List of Participants and Resource Persons