Les investissements japonais dans le monde : quelle stratégie caribéenne ?

From the point of view of exports and direct investment, Japanese firms have never considered the West Indies as being of any importance. The large corporations are present and export consumer goods to the French overseas departments, which they see as oases of relative development in a deprived region but, when all comes to all, sales are puny as far as these corporations are concerned.Direct investment remains very low, mirroring the weakness in basic infrastructures. Certain islands in the region are trying to carve out niches for themselves as tax havens, but with little success so far. Tourism has attracted more.In future, the West Indies should benefit from a higher level of human and technological assistance as part of the diversification of Japanese government aid. The government is being urged by the United States and the EEC not to give systematic preference to the Asian countries in this respect. Logically, this development fits in with the universalisation of the strategy adopted by the Japanese companies and government