A comparison of clustered and dispersed firms in the small-scale clothing industry of Lima

World Development

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1553-1570

  Visser, Evert Jan ^a  

^a NEI The Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOTHING INDUSTRY; GARMENT INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; MANUFACTURING; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY;

PERU;

CLOTHING INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC DATA; GARMENT;

EID: 0032884996     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00077-7     Document Type: Article

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