Event Schedule

Monday, March 15, 2021  13:00 - 14:30

All are encouraged to attend

This online seminar will be conducted using the Zoom online meeting application.

NATSUDA Kaoru, Professor, College of International Management
Speaker'ｓ profile:
https://researcher.apu.ac.jp/apuhp/KgApp?resId=S001465&Language=2

Title:Automotive Industrialisation in Southeast Asia and Central Europe

Outline:
This study investigates the effectiveness of industrial policy, and the role of state capacity to implement it, by making a comparison of automotive development in Thailand and Czechia, the largest vehicle producers in Southeast Asia and Central and Eastern Europe, respectively. The development of the industry in both countries primarily relied on foreign investment, despite Czechia’s long earlier history of domestic automotive development.
The countries, however, have used very different types of industrial policy. Thailand introduced a series of vertical (sector-specific) industrial policies, pursuing a proactive industrial development strategy with state intervention, continuing even under the restrictions on trade-related policy measures imposed by the WTO since 2000. In contrast, Czechia has employed mostly horizontal (non-sector-specific) industrial policies with less state intervention, influenced by the restrictions of the European Union. Although both countries achieved considerable output and export growth, Thailand has a deeper and more locally owned supply chain. Thailand’s imaginative use of de facto local content requirements in connection with its product champion policy is instructive.

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English

300

Free

Sunday, March 14, 2021 23:59

Ritsumeikan Center for Asia Pacific Studies

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Inquiries:
Research Office, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
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