Rising concentration in Asia-Latin American value chains: Can small firms turn the tide?

Dynamic Asia has overtaken the European Union as Latin America and the Caribbean’s second largest export market, after the United States. However, the region’s exports to Asia remain concentrated in few commodities involving a small number of large firms. This book explores the present and future scope for the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in biregional trade and value chains and the measures that can be taken to make those chains more inclusive and sustainable. SMEs have a low direct presence in the region’s export flows and their participation in the supplier networks of multinational companies is weak. This volume reviews several supplier development programmes (SDPs) adopted in various countries in Asia and Latin America to increase SME linkages with multinational firms. These programmes, many of which are public-private initiatives, aim to boost SME productivity and enhance their participation in value chains.

The strategies of multinational companies in 1990s Argentina

Includes bibliography

The determinants of firms' distant collaboration. Evidence from Argentina, 1998-2001

Includes bibliography

A snapshot of Chile's 20 largest multinational enterprises in 2011: Sustained growth in South America

Includes bibliography

E-commerce environment and trade promotion for Latin America: policy implications from East Asian and advanced economies' experiences

Includes bibliography

The internationalization of Latin American industrial firms

Includes bibliography

Systemic competitiveness: a new challenge for firms and for government

Includes bibliography

The strategies pursued by Mexican firms in their efforts to become global players

Includes bibliography

Behaviour of Brazilian export firms: implications for the Free Trade Area of the Americas

Includes bibliography

The export performance of Chilean firms: some stylized facts

Includes bibliography

Productivity differences in Brazilian manufacturing firms, by industrial sector: school bullying and academic achievement

Includes bibliography

Profile and possibility of a multinational ore marketing enterprise: the case of Latin America

Includes bibliography

Market structure, firm size and exports of manufactures: an econometric analysis of 12.435 firms

Includes bibliography