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, few African countries have managed to establish a presence in the global textiles and apparel markets until recently. As a … result, Africa as a whole remains a net importer of textiles and clothing even though it is a net exporter of cotton. The … (until 2008) to protect their domestic textiles and clothing industries. These safeguards provide a brief opportunity for sub …
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"Madagascar's textile and apparel industry has been among the fastest growing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fueled by low labor costs, a fairly productive labor force, and preferential access to industrial countries, Madagascar's exports of textile and apparel products grew from about US
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"Past research into the determinants of international trade highlighted the importance of the basic spatial gravity model augmented by additional variables representing sources of friction. Studies modeled many sources of friction using various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment...
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prices, mobility constrains, political instability, and evolution of the pandemic. The export and import via container are …
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Plastics have been a development driver for decades but have turned into a development problem due to their omnipresence in the environment. Marine litter and plastic pollution have attracted much attention and commitments from governments and the private sector alike in the past few years....
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This report concerns two streams of Technical Assistance provided by the World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) to the Government of Vietnam. They are: strengthening the enabling environment, capacity building systems and evidence-based learning and lesson sharing. Strengthening demand...
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of rural employment. It also remains the country's most important agricultural export crop. Among development priorities … significant gains in national output in the most recent decade along with surging export revenues. …
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Biomass is the most important source of energy in Rwanda, especially for domestic cooking. Today approximately 86 percent of primary energy comes from biomass, mainly in the form of wood that is either used directly as a fuel (57 percent), or converted into charcoal (23 percent) together with...
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