This new policy review, entitled: Mozambique's Integration into Regional Value Chains and the Role of Women Small-Scale Cross-Border Traders, aims to provide a framework to better understand the role of regional value chains in Mozambique's international trade, and the main challenges and obstacles to successfully integrate the country's productive activities into these value chains.
It is addressed to a variety of stakeholders, but primarily to policymakers, with the aim of providing guidance on public policy measures and actions that facilitate the integration of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) into the existing value chains between Mozambique and its neighbouring countries.
This policy review argues that the potential for the integration of such enterprises into the existing regional value chains holds out the prospect of achieving significant gains in both their productivity and growth, as well as for the welfare of the small-scale entrepreneurs and workers involved in them.
Within the broader category of MSMEs, this policy review looks more specifically at the role of women small-scale cross-border traders and examines the extent to which small-scale cross-border trade in Mozambique can be integrated into and benefit from these value chains.
The policy review concludes with a set of concrete public policy recommendations to overcome the key barriers to the effective integration of women small-scale cross border traders into the identified regional value chains.
