This paper discusses the significant potential for the SME sector to increase its contribution to East Asia's regional development through greater participation in global value chains while risks from multiple market failures can be mitigated by proper policy measures. The authors also discuss...

This paper discusses the significant potential for the SME sector to increase its contribution to East Asia's regional development through greater participation in global value chains while risks from multiple market failures can be mitigated by proper policy measures. The authors also discuss...

Latin America and East Asia presented diversified performance in industrialization in the 1990s, and one of the crucial factors that made the contrast was the different degree of developing international production/distribution networks. This paper analyzes micro data of Japanese multinational...