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The impact of imports from China on African textile exports
He, Yong - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 60-68
This study uses Comtrade trade data covering 1990-2017, 14 textile subsectors, and 53 African countries with their main trade partners to evaluate Chinese trade impacts on African textile exports over three subperiods at the sector level. It finds that, although textile imports from China had a...
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Mapping crisis-era protectionism in the Asia Pacific region
Evenett, Simon J. - 2013
This paper provides an account of the resort in recent years by governments in the Asia Pacific region to discrimination against foreign commercial interests. As in previous systemic economic crises, policymakers altered the mix of discriminatory policies employed. This time around governments...
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Skill mismatch and returns to education in manufacturing: A case of India's textile and clothing industry
Kukreja, Prateek - 2018
: Textiles and Clothing (T&C). The study is based on the 68th round of NSS Employment and Unemployment Survey estimates. Using …
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The political economy of import substitution in the 21st century: The challenge of recapturing the domestic market in Rwanda
Behuria, Pritish - 2017
- cement and textiles - where such policies have been recently established in Rwanda. The paper argues that any attempt at …
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Value chain directionality, upgrading, and industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sectors
Boys, Julian; Andreoni, Antonio - 2020
With recent changes in the global economy, policy makers are increasingly turning from global value chains to regional and national value chains as drivers of structural transformation in the global South. This paper examines economic and social upgrading in the Tanzanian textile and apparel...
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The Japanese Textile Sector and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920
Noy, Ilan; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the connection between the epidemiology of a virus, the structure of the economy and society that becomes exposed to it, and the actions chosen by government and by individuals and communities to combat it or ameliorate its economic impact....
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Economic Cooperation of ASEM Countries and the Trade in Textiles between the European Union and Asian Countries
Drzymała, Agnieszka - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 22 (2019) 1, pp. 123-141
trade between the parties is discussed, with a particular focus on the trade in textiles under ASEM. The time range includes … that the European Union countries import more textiles and clothing than they export to Asian ASEM countries. …
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Overview of EU and Global Conditions for the Transformation of the TCLF Industry on the Way to a Circular and Digital Economy (Case Studies from Poland)
Dziuba, Radosław; Jabłońska, Małgorzata; … - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 1, pp. 75-94
The article aims to review the changes that have taken place in the European and global TCLF (Textiles …
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"This Monstrous Scheme": Die Idee eines nationalen Wollregisters im Großbritannien des 18. Jahrhunderts und die Grenzen des Merkantilismus
Ziegler, Hannes - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 1, pp. 6-34
The project of a national register of wool was the fever dream of mercantilism in Great Britain during the eighteenth century. For more than half a century, major parts of the English woolen traders and clothiers thereby attempted to lend administrative teeth to the ban on the exportation of...
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India - Pakistan trade: Textiles and clothing
Taneja, Nisha; Ray, Saon; Pande, Devyani - 2016
pronounced in textiles rather than clothing, and cotton yarn is the most traded textile item. Despite that, there is a high level … of intra-industry trade in clothing and apparels. This reflects complementarities in trade in textiles and clothing … on the informal trade in textiles between the countries and views from industry stakeholders, thereby suggesting removal …
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