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Participants toured a local big-box store to see firsthand how electronic consumer products incorporate conformity assessment markings indicating product safety and energy efficiency. Attendees also toured Washington Laboratories, a Maryland-based electronics testing laboratory, to observe the importance of standards to product testing.

Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both quality and quantity, promotes income equality, while the link between investment and income distribution is weak

Over the past years Prysmian has been investing in the construction of the Vila Velha plants for umbilicals and flexible pipes with the aim of diversifying and further expanding its activities in the market of technology and products for the OG&P industry. The flexible pipes plant has complemented the umbilical plant, opened in 2007, and the addition of flexible pipes to its product range has enabled Prysmian to offer the OG&P industry a comprehensive range of SURF products (Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines). Now thanks to the merger between Prysmian and Draka, the Group can rely also on two plants in North America, thus broadening the available range of products technology to special Down Hole Technology (DHT) systems (manufactured in Massachusetts and New Jersey) and creating interesting cross-selling opportunities to accelerate the business’s expansion also in new strategic areas such as ASEAN, Northern Europe and Western Africa.

In 2013, Thailand will see the start of a massive infrastructure investment programme designed to enhance international connectivity and competitiveness and boost regional development ahead of the ASEAN Economic Community to be launched by 2016. According to the Thai  government, 55 projects worth $76.27 billion are set to be executed by 2020, with $3.36 billion allocated for 2013.