Global production sharing — cross-border dispersion of production processes within vertically integrated global industries — has been an increasingly important structural feature of economic globalization in the recent decades. Global production sharing opens up opportunities for countries to specialize in different slices (tasks) of the production process depending on their relative cost advantage and other relevant economic fundamentals. Decisions about how much to produce and for which market have to be combined with decisions about whether to produce and with what degree of intra-product specialisation. What is developing countries’ role within global production networks, and what are impacts of global production sharing to countries late in joining the networks? This topic will be addressed by Professor Premachandra Athukorala in this regional webinar for audience in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Indonesia.

Speaker: Premachandra Athukorala (Emeritus Professor of Economics, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University)

The seminar will be moderated by Dr Kimlong Chheng (Vice President, Asian Vision Institute)

Thursday, 6 May 2021 at 10.00-11.30am Phnom Penh/Jakarta

Participate on Zoom (registration needed):http://bit.ly/SEAeconomy2
or on YouTube: http://bit.ly/fkp-live

The Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU) and the Asian Vision Institute (AVI) are hosts of this online seminar under the Food Insecurity and Inequality Program supervised by Professor Budy. P. Resosudarmo and supported by the Australia-ASEAN Council. The seminar is also in cooperation with Forum Kajian Pembagunan in Indonesia and the ANU Indonesia Project and ANU Poverty and Inequality Research Centre (PIRC).