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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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Vietnam’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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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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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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This paper assesses the technical efficiency and profitability of the knitwear industry in Bangladesh taking into account the sector’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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) methodology proposed in this paper show that NAFTA membership does not enhance the variety of Mexico's export goods. This finding …
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define firms conducting HFDI or PFDI as those Japanese firms that maintain production affiliates only in the U.S. or Mexico …, respectively. The firms for CFDI are defined as having production affiliates in both the U.S. and Mexico. The theoretical … illustration shows that the CFDI firms should have the highest productivity when trade costs between the U.S. and Mexico are low …
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For manufacturing firms in developing countries, there are high barriers to entry and to catching up with competitors in their global production networks (GPNs). This paper examines the case of a Mexican auto-parts manufacturer that succeeded in catching up in the automotive GPN. The author...
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The involvement of members of owners' families in the running of large family businesses in Mexico is decreasing … courses. Most of them are sufficiently experienced. Improvement of quality among top managers is a recent phenomenon in Mexico …
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Indigenous firms in Mexico, as in most developing countries, take the shape of family businesses. Regardless of size … management succession. Big family businesses in Mexico deal with human resource limitations adopting measures such as the …
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