Productivity, Technology, and Industrial Development: A Case Study in Textiles

by Howard Pack

This comparative case study of textiles discusses many different topics related to productivity, technology, and industrial development and strategy, including: technological and economic issues in cotton textile production; best practice, and the source of deviations from it; the Kenyan textile sector; the Philippine textile sector; productivity differentials; and project design. In conclusion, the author also offers guidelines for policy and raises several issues involved in the transfer of technology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019520543X
• ISBN13: 9780195205435
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.6"