In this paper we use comprehensive historic firm level data for 1925 to 1938 to estimate productivity spillovers from Japanese textile companies' affiliates in China (Zaikabo) to local cotton producers in China. We geo-localized firms in order to capture the important role of distance in...

Supplier development in the form of contract farming has become the main sourcing strategy in agro-processing industry. However, it is not yet clear from the extant literature how investments in contract farming contribute towards yield per yield. More specifically, this study sought to...

We report the amphoteric and composited modification of semi-carbonized fibers (SCFs) prepared using cotton and acrylic clothes for de-risking heavy metal-contaminated water to realize the resource utilization of waste clothes in wastewater treatment. Adsorption capacities of heavy metal on...

Vellore Arthi, Brian Beach and W. Walker Hanlon (2022) investigate the effect of the Lancashire Cotton Famine on mortality, accounting for the migration response to the downturn. They use difference-in-differences to estimate the effect of the cotton famine on mortality. To account for the...

Responsible consumption and production are key to sustainable development, and are therefore a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 12) in their own right. Consumption and production patterns also need to be socially responsible and economically viable. Private-sector requirements and state supply...

Trade is an essential indicator for measuring a country's economic condition. It is also an effective way of balancing goods and services among countries. No country in the modern world is self-sufficient in goods and services. That is the reason for emerging the economic concept of trade. The...

Today's world has many untold truths, and unethical practices hidden behind the beautiful and glamorous clothes that people wear, especially during cotton production. Cotton can be found everywhere. It is in clothes, bed linens, towels, "furniture, tablecloths, curtains, toys such as dolls and...

Cotton is an important cash crop playing a vital role in socio-economic development of the country. The main objectives of the study was to assess the production and marketing trend of cotton by analyzing the area, production, productivity, and trade from 2010-2019. The study used a secondary...

We explore how firms grow by adding products. In contrast to most earlier work on the topic, our conceptual and empirical framework allows for separate treatment of product innovation (vertical differentiation) and diversification (horizontal differentiation). The market context is Japan’s...

Cotton, a worthwhile raw material and a core of the textile manufactures, has been the most crucial resource for many centuries and still keeps its top placement. Cotton has a very ancient history in Azerbaijan as well and the first burned cotton skein and cotton seeds were found Mingachevir...

We construct a novel plant-level dataset to examine the process of technology adoption during a period of rapid technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new stylized facts that can help explain why major...

Developing an all-biomass feedstock, simple process and low-cost way to achieve cotton fabric flame retardation is of great significance in civil, military and industrial fields. Herein, making use of layer-by-layer coating of protein extracted from fishery waste fish scales and phytic acid (PA)...

Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Genn.) and Pink Bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella Saund.) are two major challenges in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Overdue use of synthetic pesticides especially pyrethroids flare up the whitefly population in cotton. The current study emphasizes the impact of...

As an emerging efficient and sustainable technology, solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SDIE) has great potential to tackle the freshwater crisis by purifying water from brine or wastewater, in which photothermal conversion materials (PCMs), play a primary and critical role. Herein, we report...

Although the benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops have been well documented, how do farmers manage the risk of new technology in the early stages of technology adoption has received less attention. We compare the total factor productivity (TFP) of cotton to other major crops (wheat, rice,...

This paper uses the diamond model theory as the basic research perspective to explore how the upstream and downstream industrial chains of cotton in Xinjiang can escape from the constraints of reality and how their resource endowments can be transformed into competitive advantages. This paper...

During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of cotton textiles. This paper argues that the expansion of domestic textile production is best understood as a path- dependent process that was initiated by the proetction provided by the Embargo...

Urban economies are often heavily reliant on a small number of dominant industries, leaving them vulnerable to negative industry-specific shocks. This paper analyzes the long-run impacts of one such event: the large, temporary, and industry-specific shock to the British cotton textile industry...

Recent research has suggested that the antebellum U.S. cotton textile industry would have been wiped out had it not received tariff protection. We reaffirm Taussig's judgment that the U.S. cotton textile industry was largely independent of the tariff by the 1830s. American and British producers...

The COVID-19 sickness, brought about by the contamination of SARS COV-2, was first revealed in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Present day internationally associated world made the infection to immediately spread across various nations. In India, the main case was accounted for on January 31,...

Part I: Introductory chapters -- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Garment Economy -- Chapter 2 The History of Bedouin Clothing Made for Traditional Nomadic Lifestyle -- Chapter 3 The Garments Economy: An African Perspective -- Chapter 4 Indian Clothing: Its Evolution and Development -- Chapter 5...