Chapter ---------4
The method(s) used for gathering the information..............................................46
The method(s) used for analyzing the information..............................................49
The Analysis ------------------
Country economic overview ................................................................................44
The national demands .........................................................................................50
The diamond works as a system...........................................................................53
Factor Conditions Advantages and disadvantages .............................................53
the national demand for Afghanistan..................................................................55
Afghan Marble Cluster Diamond........................................................................56
comparing the Afghanistan marbles vs. Pakistan ..............................................59
Influence the marble cluster in Afghanistan.......................................................13
Dominance by few quarrying companies.........................................................16
product differentiation .......................................................................................16
Integration of suppliers in the actual marble business........................................17
Importance of marble industry to the block suppliers.........................................17
Large-volume purchases.......................................................................................17
Differentiation versus standard products.............................................................18
Threat of substitute products...............................................................................18
rivalry among existing competitors......................................................................19
Marble Industry Kabul, Afghanistan | may 11, 2013meeting by USAID........................20
Chapter ---------5
Conclusions/judgments.........................................................................................22
Conclusions under the “Factor Conditions...........................................................22
Conclusions under the “Demand Conditions .......................................................23
Conclusions under the “related and supporting industries..................................23
Conclusions under the “context for firm strategy, structure and rivalry............24
bibliography ....................................................................................................25
Acknowledgment
All praises belong to almighty Allah who the supreme authority knows the ultimate relation underlying all sorts of phenomenon going on in this universe & whose blessing & exaltation flourished my thought & thrived my ambitions to have the cherished fruit of my modest efforts my humblest thanks to the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) who is forever a torch of guidance & knowledge for humanity as a whole.
We deem it our utmost pleasure to avail this opportunity to express gratitude & deep sense of obligation to my revered respected teachers Mr. Prithvi Benerji and AISA’s President & CEO Mr. WafiUllah Iftekhar and his team of survey and research department Mr. Zaki stanekzai and Mr. Abdul Samad Katawazi for their valuable and dexterous guidance, untiring help, compassionate attitude, kind behavior, moral support and enlightened supervision during this whole thesis report.
Finally, I would like to extend hurtful thanks to my adoring parents and friends for their day and night prayers sacrifices and encouragement, moral and financial support throughout the course of our study.
May all of them live long and enjoy a happy life!
Executive summary
This research and thesis is regarding Afghanistan industry and specially the marbles stone and its competitors domestically and internationally the objective of this paper are to study the market structure and performance of marbles industry to look at the potential opportunity from an investors prospective to identify the constraints and factors of market and to finalize recommended measures and actions for the development of this industry.
In order to serve the objectives of this paper I relied in my methodology on using the SCP(structure-conduct-performance) model to study the market structure and performance ,whilst we employed a more general approach for the identification of market opportunity and constrains .data and information was collected through onsite visits to business and factories interwove and discussion with business owners head of assassinators and official at the ministry of mines and previous studies and report made on market on marbles industry in Afghanistan and in neighboring countries .
The Afghanistan marbles industry has grown by 60% in year 2008 and it should be good reason for the government to please this place or sector at its top priority for support .based on the data collection by the ministry of mines our projections shows that marbles industry in Afghanistan in term of the number of employees, size of production and share in GDP could grow fivefold over the next five year .however this research are based on some hypotheses
As the analysis we have done from AISA (Afghanistan investment support agency) which according the survey which have been done by AISA and according this information since 2003 it have been huge private investment in Afghanistan like1.8$ billion foreign investment and 3.8$ billion domestic investment and the total investment is 5,552,495,221$ from 2003 up to Jan, Feb, March 2013and in marbles and granites industrial sector total investment domestically is 17,711,000$.most of the remaining other investment are allocated to the construction, services, agriculture and manufacturing, and this is the huge amount of investment which is the strength of Afghanistan economy for creating more jobs and eradicating the poverty from Afghanistan and as our topic is industries, and investment in marbles industry is the highest growth and day by day increasing in the price of marbles stone and the return or profit is acceptable for the investor of marbles.
As we know that Afghanistan doesn’t have advanced technology as their competitors and the neighbors are possessing to produce high quality of product and there is no tendency among afghan firms to enquire new technology and improve their industry and marketing management and to resolve these all problems arising from the market deficiency, the paper recommended that the government sectors, such as ministry of finance and ministry of mines provide incentives for the firms operation in marbles quarrying to increase their output and upgrade the enquired technology .
List of observations
ASIA Afghanistan investment support agency .
ASMED Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprises Development.
AMGPA Afghan marbles granite processing association .
SCP Structure conducted performance.
USAID United stated agency for international development.
UNDP United nation development program.
R&D Research and development .
MOM Ministry of mines.
GDP Gross domestic product.
EPAA Export promotion agency of Afghanistan.
USGS United states geological survey .
AGS Afghan Geological Survey
AHDR Afghanistan Human Development Report
ARIES Afghanistan Rural Investment and Enterprise strengthening
CCCA Commercial Competition Commission of Afghanistan
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CPHD Center for Policy and Human Development
DAB Da Afghanistan Bank (the central bank)
DDI Domestic Direct Investment
OTF On the Frontiers Group
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
GIROA Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
HDI Human Development Index
MMI Ministry of Mines and Industries
MT Metric Ton
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NEPA National Environmental Protection Agency of
PPP Purchasing Power Parity
PRR Priority Reform and Restructuring
SME Small and Medium Enterprises
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Chapter 1
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the whole industries and specially the marbles industry's scope and growth in Afghanistan and in regional markets and the competitor of the marbles we know Afghanistan is spend more ware in their history and now a days it some hove growth and investment is increasingly reach to upper levels in industry most of the foreign and domestic business men are involve in this investment in Afghanistan and create the industry like the beverage , marble industries and oil industry dried fruit industry ,fresh fruit industry ,non alcoholic beverage fruits industry and carpet industry from quarrying all the way down the actual production and marketing of the marbles production in Afghanistan and suggest to the investor innovative approach that would increase the productivity and competitive position of the afghan marbles product. And the topic which is going to be discuss as bellow
To understand current literature on the afghan marble industry :
To investigate the current approach to the afghan marbles productivity :
To analyze the afghan marbles competitiveness and (c) analyses and five porters theory.
Market analysis in afghan marbles .
factor of production in marbles industry .
And to drown conclusions and recommendations ,