Towards the sustainable development in Asia

这项研究考察了跨国公司在亚洲发展中国家的作用。我们以在印度的公司为重点，走访了一些日本、美国和欧洲的公司，并对他们的经理、工人和当地社区进行了调查。与人们普遍认为的大多数跨国公司追求自己的商业利益以赚取利润，从而对当地社区贡献很少相反，我们发现，从技术转移到环境保护，许多跨国公司为欠发达经济体的可持续发展做出了重大贡献。特别是汽车行业就是一个很好的例子，因为它们的供应链很长，技术转让的空间很大/在日本官方发展援助的作用中，我们得出结论，援助工业培训机构是最具成本效益的，我们还建议这些努力必须得到私营公司的支持，因为如果没有与私营部门的联系，这种类型的官方发展援助并不总是成功的。

This study has examined the roles of multinational companies in Asian developing countries. Focusing on companies in India, we have visited a number of Japanese as well as American and European companies and made surveys to their manager, workers, and local communities.On the contrary to the general belief that most multinationals pursue their own business interest for making profits, and hence making little contribution to the local communities, it was revealed that many multinational companies have made significant contribution to the sustainable development of less-developed economies from technological transfer to environmental conservation. Especially the automobile industry was a good example, as their supply-chain is long and the room for technological transfer is significant/Among the roles of Japanese ODA, we have concluded that assisting Industrial Training Institutes is most cost-effective and we also proposed that these efforts have to be supported by private companies, as this types of ODA does not always success without link to the private sector.