The international competitiveness of Asian economies in the apparel commodity chain

ERD Working Paper Series

Volumn , Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1-34

  Gereffi, Gary ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY; COMPETITIVENESS; MANUFACTURED EXPORT; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 1942485237     PISSN: 16555252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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