Editors – Ippei Yamazawa, Daisuke Hiratsuka
Chapter 8 discusses Japan’s industrial structure and structural reforms. Japan has been introducing coherent policies to respond to the economic integration that has rapidly progressed in the East Asian region. Chapter 9 measures the competitiveness of ASEAN, China and Japan by industry and conclude that ASEAN countries are competing against one another within the region as well as with China, while Japan has complementary trade relationships with both ASEAN and China. In chapter 10, emphasis is on the strengthening the fundamentals to determine competitiveness and developed a quantitative measure of the fundamentals in order to prioritise for policy implementation. |
This
volume is a compilation of all the papers presented in the background
report titled ASEAN-Japan Competitive Strategy Report. Chapter 1
summarizes the individual papers from the ASEAN members. It discusses
the competitive- enhancing policies to be emphasised in the course
of economic integration. Chapters 2-7 discuss the strategy for upgrading
industries and enhancing the competitiveness of the six ASEAN countries,
with attention paid to the remarkable rise of China, which has intensified
market competition, and emphasis on the need for competitive- enhancing
policies.| |