#value chains

Collection of value chains news, found 110 news.

Proactive participation in global value chains is a recommended development path for Lao PDR, says the report by the ASEAN-Japan Centre, released today

Lao PDR is a country rich in natural resources and associated with underdeveloped manufacturing. The country needs to ...

China contributes US$1.42 million to promote APEC cooperation

China contributed US$1.42-million to promote APEC cooperation, including advancing trade and investment initiatives to ...

Vietnam urges New Zealand to open door wider for ASEAN goods

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Saturday (Nov 14) called on New Zealand to open its door wider for goods and ...

Ministry to tap into local tourism, focus on domestic visitors

The Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry is planning to exploit the potential of domestic tourism and focus on ...

World Food Day calls for solidarity, more resilient, robust systems

The 2020 World Food Day calls for more resilient and robust agri-food systems and for global solidarity since the ...

AJC identifies vulnerable industries by calculating the risk intensity of value chains to external shocks in their recent report on Resilient GVCs for ASEAN

In the publication, entitled Resilient Global Value Chains (GVCs) for ASEAN and its Relationship with Partner ...

Securing regional food resilience dominates agenda at FAO meet

Government representatives from 46 countries in the Asia-Pacific region gathered online on Thursday to examine the ...

Trade facilitation is critical response to COVID-19 pandemic: APEC CTI

Krasna Bobenrieth, chair of the Committee of Trade and Investment (CTI), stressed that facilitating trade is a critical ...

Viet Nam global value chains: creating more value added to local economy from rising exports is a remaining question to tackle by the government, says ASEAN-Japan Centre

- While Viet Nam —­ one of the poorest nations in the world in the 1980s — has become today a market-based and ...

APEC highlights significance of multilateral cooperation in COVID-19

Multilateral cooperation, including the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), safeguards countries worldwide in ...

Export potential of ASEAN LDCs found in new forms of trade, says ASEAN-Japan Centre

- The use of non-equity modes (NEMs) of production has been increasing in both Lao PDR and Myanmar. This is ...

Only two-thirds of export value of textiles and clothing from ASEAN constitute their own GDP – says ASEAN-Japan Centre

- Textiles and clothing1 are archetypal industries through which ASEAN member states achieve industrialization and ...

AJC proposes key to empower ASEAN agribusiness: how to participate more in agribusiness global value chains

- Does competitiveness of agribusiness really increase in ASEAN? The answer is yes according to the ASEAN-Japan Centre. ...

AJC’s study on GVC presented at the high-level symposium on Intra-ASEAN Trade and Investment held in Hanoi

- Secretary General of the ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC), Mr. Masataka Fujita was invited to the High-Level Symposium on ...

APEC ministers called to boost food security

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministers appealed to regional economies to intensify efforts to promote ...