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Mekong Development Forum: Promoting India-Mekong Cooperation

The Forum is being organized at the invitation of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), India’s leading industry-led and managed NGO. The principal objective of MDF New Delhi is to promote GMS as a rapidly integrating, increasingly prosperous, and internationally competitive growth subregion and to stimulate thinking and broaden awareness of GMS opportunities in the India business community. The Forum will provide opportunity for identifying areas of cooperation in infrastructure development, trade and investment, tourism, information technology including software development, manufacturing, and agribusiness. The Forum will also be a good occasion to share experiences in fostering regional economic integration in GMS and South Asia.

A secondary objective is to provide a venue for the GMS Governments to gain better understanding of the policy, legal and regulatory requirements for promoting Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in infrastructure development by learning from the rich experience and best practices of India in PPP.

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Expected outcomes of the workshop are:

• Increased awareness on Indian business community about the opportunities for trade and investment in the GMS
• Identification of potential sectors and/or projects for collaboration between Indian and GMS private sectors
• Identification of specific risks to investments in GMS as perceived by the Indian private sector including specific recommendations as well as the scope and nature of mitigation mechanisms and instruments acceptable to the private sector to overcome such risks

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Participation is by invitation only.

The Forum is targeting the participation of senior executives of about 60-80 large private sector enterprises in India.

Also attending the Forum are high-level representatives from the GMS Governments as well as representatives from the GMS chambers of commerce and industry and private companies.