Agra: An old cluster facing the new competition

World Development

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1587-1604

  Knorringa, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Min for Devmt Cooperation   (Netherlands)

^c Dept for International Development   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; MANUFACTURING;

INDIA;

EID: 0032830429     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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