Cost has a significant impact on competitiveness within the shipbuilding industry. In China, low costs have created favourable conditions for domestic shipyards competing in the international market. However, China's shipbuilders have been facing rising cost pressures in recent years, which may...

The author examines privatization in newly industrializing countries of Asia, in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines and in three Asian socialist countries , China, Vietnam and Laos. He discusses rectified concepts of state regulation in Asian countries, general principles of...