Manual for the Preparation of Industrial Feasibility Studies [antikvár]

Foreword As manifested in the Lima Declaration and Plan of Action, it is the express intention of the international community that the developing countries should attain by the year 2000 a 25 per cent share in world industrial production. Among many other considerations, this endeavour is in my view closely dependent on the developing countries9 ability not only to negotiate successfully the new distribution of industrial capacities with Governments and industrialists of the developed world, but alsó, and at least equally important, to select investments commensurate with their development objectives and targets. It is, therefore, imperative that the developing countries continue their efforts to improve the development strategies and policies which constitute the framework within which investments take place. The selection of sound investment projects has to be undertaken in this context so as to ensure the optimum utilization of scarce humán and capital resources towards meeting social objectives and economic growth. With the publication of the Manual for the Preparation of Industrial Feasibility Studies UNIDO is aiming at providing the developing countries with a tool to facilitate the preparation of projects that are technically, financially and economically sound. Through the Manual, a contribution is alsó being made towards the standardization of industrial feasibility studies which, as experience has shown, in the past have frequently been not only incomplete but alsó inadequately prepared. The Manual should be used in conjunction with the Guidelines for Project Evaluation. Both pubiications constitute an approach to the difficult task of project preparation and evaluation; an approach that, it is hoped, will find acceptance with all concerned in the attainment ofthe Lima target. Dr. Abd-El Rab man Khane Executive Director