TY - JOUR 
A1 - Lwesya, Francis
T1 - Competitividad de las PYMEs y el comercio internacional en la era de las cadenas globales de valor (GVCs) en Tanzania: Análisis y desafíos

Y1 - 2021
SN - 2531-0046
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/9265
AB - [ENG] International trade continues to play a crucial role in economic transformation in African countries. The rise of Global Value Chains (GVCs) presents opportunities through which international trade can be effectively conducted. GVCs facilitate organization of trade, international production and investment by locating different stages of production process across varied countries. This presents opportunities to integrate Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) into global trading systems but also may generate challenges particularly to resource constrained SMEs. Reviewing the challenges for the participation in international trade and possible integration into GVCs by Tanzania’s SMEs, the results show that the major challenges for SMEs internationalization are international marketing related constraints and global competition (69%), supply side constraints (56%), unfriendly investment climate (50%) and financial constraints (37.5%). As such, the role of trade policies remains critical in mitigating some of these challenges through formulating friendly legal and regulatory frameworks, enhancing SMEs productivity by building their managerial and technical capacities, minimizing trade costs, and increasing trade openness. However, given the current global, regional and domestic developments in Tanzania, trade policies need review so as to respond to the changing global trade landscape but also promote policy harmony, coherence and complementarities among varying implementing institutions, deficiency of which is debilitating policy implementation at present.

KW - SMEs
KW - Global value chain (GVC)
KW - Trade policies
KW - International trade
KW - SMEs competitiveness
KW - PYMEs
KW - Cadenas globales de valor (GVC)
KW - Políticas comerciales
KW - Comercio internacional
KW - Competitividad de las PYMEs
KW - 5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
KW - F13
KW - F14
KW - F42
KW - L26
KW - M13
LA - eng
PB - AECA (Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas)
PB - Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
ER -