Shkodra free zone

most active businessmen of the free zone is to find the most suitable
and satisfying strategic policies for the economic development, based
on the real efficiency of investments
relating to the distribution and
allocation
of resources.
What can we learn from the Asian Newly Industrialised
Economies?
On my diplomatic mission in Southeast Asia (1993-997) I
came into close contacts with the economic reality of this region and
learned that the most developed part of Asia is located in the
Southeast region. This region with an astonishing record of sustained
growth, within less than two decades, has improved the living
standards
of more people, more rapidly, than at any other time or
place in history.
Southeast Asian economies are built on strong basic
fundamentals, which are still in place even now that this region is
trying to find the way out of its financial turmoil. These economies
have been built following the Japanese model of high savings and
cheap money directed to strategic industries, which helped Japan to
catch up with the West very quickly. The economists points of view
on these fundamentals differ but most of them agree with the view
that, unlike the other Asian countries such as India, etc., the
Southeast Asian economic development has been due to `openness'
and outward orientation, and greater reliance placed on market
forces. The hard work, management and worker efficiency,
adoption
of the world best-practice, promotion of research and development
(R&D), entrepreneurship, high savings, productive investments, low
taxation, flexible labour markets, family values, sound government
policies, macroeconomic stability, active trade, and export
policies
helped the region to grow at 7 - 8% a year for more than a decade.
Southeast Asia experienced an export-led economic growth.
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