Berhanu, Tinsae (2006) Competitiveness of Ethiopian Garment Industry: Response to Export Market. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
The study focuses on Ethiopian garment industry competitiveness and its export market performance. The main purpose is to find the factors that are impediments for competitiveness of garment industry at firm and inter-firm (cluster) level in general and to find out the peculiar problems of garment manufacturing in the export activities. Concepts of competitiveness and measures have been discussed. The Porter diamond and GEM models have been chosen to analyze firm and inter-firm levels. The results of both models turned out to be the same, depicting the very low status of competitiveness of the Ethiopian garment industry. At the firm level, all the determinants of competitiveness are found to be insignificant. Among the factors, related and supporting industries and firm strategy, structure and rivalry mainly limit the firms from utilizing their cost advantage to sustained market share on the domestic as well as on the international market. At the inter firm level the result shows the level of Ethiopian garment industry to be below the average level as compared to Africa continent and very far form the international level. The study foreword some recommendation or policy implication base on the analysis. Some of the major recommendations are: on the importance of import substitution strategy in complement with the export-oriented strategy is highly magnified in the study for the sector long run development. Clustering is another area in which more considered necessary through increasing the number, distribution and quality (efficiency of network with in cluster) of garment clusters. Government involvement to create access to reliable and low cost of inputs and access to finance is crucial for garment industry competitiveness. The other important area that needs an improvement is the quality of garment products and utilization of PMA, here the importance of firms, government and other institutions collaborate with each other to tackle the problems is very crucial to improve the competitiveness of Ethiopian garment industry.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2018 13:11 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2018 13:11 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7746 |
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