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Is the Vietnamese garment industry at a turning point? : upgrading from the export to the domestic market

Goto, Kenta - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

Vietnamâ€™s garment industry has been loosely characterized by the duality based on market orientation: export and domestic. Export-oriented garment suppliers were typically SOEs and foreign invested firms, while those producing for the domestic market have been mostly small, private...

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Slow and steady wins the race : how the garment industry leads industrialization in low-income countries

Fukunishi, Takahiro; Yamagata, Tatsufumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper investigates how the garment industry escapes this vicious cycle and argues for the validity of labor-intensive industry as a starting point for full-fledged industrialization, even though it might at first seem to be a digression from the path to an innovation-led economy. By...

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FDI and Export Participation of Local Firms in Africa: The Case of the Kenyan Garment Industry

Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

FDI in the garment sector has been the single case of large-scale manufacturing investment in African low-income countries since the 1990s. While FDI has triggered the development of local industries in many developing countries, it has not yet been realized in Africa. This paper describes the...

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Clothing Export from sub-Saharan Africa : Impact on Poverty and Potential for Growth

Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

Increases in clothing exports after 2000 signaled the first incidence of large-scale manufacturing exports from sub-Saharan Africa. Using firm-level information, this paper explores the potential of clothing exports for poverty reduction and further growth as seen in other low income countries....

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Competitiveness of the knitwear industry in Bangladesh : a study of industrial development amid global competition

Bakht, Zaid; Salimullah, Md.; Yamagata, Tatsufumi; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This paper assesses the technical efficiency and profitability of the knitwear industry in Bangladesh taking into account the sectorâ€™s role in poverty reduction. While stochastic frontier analysis was invoked to assess technical efficiency, three alternative measures, namely the rate of...

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International labor migration in Vietnam and the impact of receiving countries' policies

Ishizuka, Futaba - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

. Recent years, Vietnam has sent about 80,000 workers abroad per year. Vietnam has become a major source country of unskilled … and Japanese policies for receiving foreign workers applied to and implemented in Vietnam, as well as the impact of …

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Emergence of Asian GAPs and its relationship to global G.A.P.

Nabeshima, Kaoru; Michida, Etsuyo; Vu, Hoang Nam; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Global G.A.P. is a one of the most influential private standards in the area of food safety and sustainability. With increasing impacts of Global G.A.P., many Asian countries have introduced the country versions of GAPs; China GAP, Japan GAP, Viet GAP, Thai GAP and ASEAN GAP. Each has been...

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Adoption of ISO9001 through supply chain in Vietnam : impacts of FDI and product-related environmental regulation

Iguchi, Hakaru; Arimura, Toshi H.; Michida, Etsuyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Product-related Environmental Regulations on Chemicals (PRERCs) and FDI using the answers to several questions in our Vietnam … in the reduction of various environmental impacts in Vietnam. In addition, we found that FDI promotes the adoption of ISO … 9001. If FDI firms in Vietnam certify ISO 14001 after the adoption of ISO 9001, as in the case of Malaysia and the …

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Location choice in low-income countries : evidence from Japanese investments in East Asia

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Unlike most existing studies, this paper examines the location choices of MNEs in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the location choices of Japanese MNEs among East Asian developing countries by estimating a four-stage nested logit model at the province level. Noteworthy results...

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Economic restructuring and regional distrubution of enterprises in Vietnam

Ishizuka, Futaba - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

The change in the ownership structure of enterprises was one of the major features of the Vietnamese economy in the 2000s. Of the three sectors of state, private and FDI, the state sector, which employed the majority of enterprise workers at the beginning of the 2000s, became the smallest by the...

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