How the BRICS are achieving competitiveness, innovation and job creation

UNIDO (INSME Member) organized a roundtable meeting in Vienna on the 20th of November 2012 on the occasion of the 40th session of the UNIDO Industrial Development Board, to discuss the challenges that the BRICS countries are currently facing in achieving higher levels of competitiveness, innovation and employment.
Senior Government representatives from the BRICS agreed on the importance of the manufacturing sector as a key element to drive economic development, technological progress, job creation and poverty alleviation and emphasized the important role played by the BRICS countries as inspirational models for the developing ones.
A new UNIDO publication Structural change, poverty, reduction and industrial policy in the BRICS - was launched at the event.
UNIDO representatives voiced their interest in contributing to the March 2013 BRICS summit in Durban, South Africa
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Source: INSME