Cluster Approach For Competitiveness Of Micro And Small Enterprises: Case Of Ethiopian Bamboo Mses

Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) are generally recognized as the main determinant factors of economic growth and equitable development. Their contribution to employment creation, poverty reduction and wider distribution of wealth and opportunities represents a major window of opportunity for most developing countries. However, the potential role of MSEs is often not realized because of a set of problems and limitations they encounter on their path to establishment and growth. Most of them lack capital, skills, education, information and technical know how, producing at best only simple and low quality products. Isolated micro and small enterprises would also face difficulty to attract traders, as trading cost per transaction would be disproportionately high.This book concentrates on clustering of bamboo MSEs to validate the methodologies and to demonstrate the results of the study.

Netsanet Jote was born in Ethiopia.She received BSc degree in Industrial Engineering from Bahir Dar University in 2005 and MSc degree from Addis Ababa University in 2009.Now, Netsanet is a PhD student at Addis Ababa University and lecturer at Bahir Dar University.She lives in Addis Ababa with her husband Andualem Abate.