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- Author: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
- Main Title: Enabling Environment for the Successful Integration of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Global Value Chains , pp 41-42
- Publication Date: December 2011
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/50c043e2-en
- Language: English
The three national studies on Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka covering plastics industry, agro-industry (coffee and ginger products) and industrial rubber and electronics products sectors strongly emphasized that SMEs in South Asia, despite having tremendous potential for growth and employment creation, were still in a precarious situation. Perennial problems such as a lack of financing, inadequate infrastructures, inaccessibility of public services and inadequate market intelligence were still major constraints hindering SMEs in South Asia. Such problems were further aggravated due to a lack of information on the markets, technological backwardness, inadequacy of human resources (both managerial and technical) and an intense competition coming from large domestic and foreign enterprises as a result of openness and economic liberalization measures.
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ISBN (PDF):
9789210553001
Book DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18356/3a9e0f87-en
Related Subject(s):
International Trade and Finance
Sustainable Development Goals:
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