Spreading manufacturing growth gains through local jobs: Lessons from the Guatemalan highlands

Development in Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 163-170

  Ortez, Omar ^a  

^a UCA in El Salvador   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GARMENT INDUSTRY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MANUFACTURING;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; TOTONICAPAN;

EID: 1542317012     PISSN: 09614524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0961452032000170730     Document Type: Article

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