Adjustment in India's textile and apparel industry: Reworking historical legacies in a post-MFA world

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2325-2344

  Tewari, Meenu ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOTHING INDUSTRY; EXPORT; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TRADE AGREEMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; INDIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33845262796     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38279     Document Type: Article

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