In an ever more crowded marketplace populated by increasingly distractible consumers, film industries in foreign countries need to think more strategically about the specific kinds of cinema they want to be known for, and having done so, focus on promoting the very best of these films and film-makers to the global audience.
China is overhauling its banking and financial industries to prepare for letting in foreign competition, a commitment made last year when it joined the World Trade Organization.
Indonesia's tourism industry, second in foreign earnings only to oil and gas, brings in more than $5 billion annually.
The session was called on Monday to debate the potentially lucrative industry, in which foreign contracts have been kept secret and allegations of corruption are rampant.
Many things, from white goods to processed foods, can be bought only with CUCs, so many professionals are working in the tourist industry or in foreign-owned companies.
Thus health services may eventually become like other industries, in which foreign investors benefited from high quality but low-cost labour to be more competitive in export-led industries.
"So long as China remains a planned economy, which builds up irrational over-capacities, and encourages its industries to dump in foreign markets, Europe cannot grant it market economy status.
In fact, Sweden's ambassador to India in the 1950s, Alva Myrdal, was one of the first Western diplomats persuaded by then-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to build industries via foreign direct investment in India, near the city of Pune.
To reflect the retail industry, foreign business standards and foreign sales development items were modified into foreign business regulations in retail industry and effective marketing in foreign markets.
Fiat is seeking, and likely to get, similar help from the Italian government.Britain, where the car industry is almost entirely in foreign hands, is tapping the EIB for a £2.3 billion ($3.3 billion) loan and providing credit guarantees worth a further £1.3 billion.
