While the growth of postfordist industrial districts in certain locations in the developed world has been well documented, the impact of the shift toward flexible production in the so-called third world has received less attention. This paper is an attempt to incorporate the dynamic, networked,...

Although apparel trade is highly regulated, trade flows conform to patterns predicted from a simple gravity model centered on distance, size, and cost variables. For low-value apparel products, which tend to compete on price, labor costs were a significant determinant of trade flows, causing...