SOUTH-SOUTH TRADE AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS AMONG AGRO-FOOD SMES: THE CASE OF SOUTHEAST ASIA AND WESTERN AFRICA

Philippe Regnier ()
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Philippe Regnier: School of International Development and Global Studies, Ottawa, Canada;

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), 2009, vol. 14, issue 02, 121-142

Abstract: This article reviews some results of a policy research project addressing agro-food SME trade promotion in Southeast Asian and Western African developing economies. The project was conducted by a group of scientific institutions based in Hanoi (Vietnam), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Geneva (Switzerland). The article documents the capacity of Southeast Asian and Western African agro-food SMEs to access domestic, regional and possibly global markets, as well as the role of international cooperation (public and private) to promote agro-food SME trade within and outside Southeast Asia, and Western Africa respectively. The article also calls for interested OECD and non-OECD partners to contribute to two types of South-South trade emerging innovations in the field of SME agro-business matching, namely, the promotion of existing and new business linkages between Southeast Asian and Western African agro-food SMEs (trade, finance and appropriate technology transfer), and the promotion of public-private partnerships to facilitate such agro-food SME business linkages between far distant Southeast Asia and Western Africa.

Keywords: Agro-food SMEs; South-South trade; appropriate technology transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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