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Comparative Advantages of the Indian and Chinese Apparel Industries: An Analysis of the Global Value Chain [PDF]

, 2009
The Indian and Chinese apparel industries each has its own strengths and weaknesses due to historical and institutional conditions, and the competitions between the two have important implications for the future development of the global apparel ...
Karpova, Elena, Karpova, Elena, Lu, Yao
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Female Earnings in the Apparel Industry Post-MFA: Evidence From Pakistan

SAGE Open, 2020
One of the major worries vis-à-vis the phasing out of the multifiber arrangements (MFA)/agreement on textile and clothing (ATC) in 2005 was that the textile and apparel (T&A) production would shift from the developed to the developing countries and have ...
Jabbar Ul-Haq, Hubert Visas, Seyedrohollah Ahmadi, Ahmed Raza Cheema   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deformable Attention Multiscale Feature Fusion Network‐Dehaze: An Adaptive Image Dehazing Method Based on Deformable Attention Multiscale Fusion Network

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This paper presents the deformable attention multiscale feature fusion network‐dehaze adaptive image dehazing network, which integrates three core modules (revised residual shrinkage unit, multiscale attention, cross‐scale feature fusion). It incorporates deformable convolution and multiscale attention mechanisms to address the detail loss issue of ...
Ruipeng Wang, Yajun Chen, Hao Liu, Mingrui Li, Zhiqi Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné, Jill Hanley, Élise Bourgeois‐Guérin, Pénélope Boudreault   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling Protectionism: Regional Responses to Remaining Barriers in the Textiles and Clothing Trade [PDF]

this chapter focuses on some major domestic issues that encompass supply and demand in textile and apparel sector in India.textile and apparel sector, domestic supply and demand ...
Badri Narayanan G.
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Barriers to institutionalizing reverse logistics for post-consumer clothing waste: an Indian apparel retail perspective [PDF]

Journal of Responsible Production and Consumption
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the institutionalization of reverse logistics (RL) in the Indian garment retail sector for post-consumer waste, identifying and classifying significant barriers within the framework of sustainable supply
Ahmed Ashraf Zaidi, Rahul Chandra
doaj   +1 more source

Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue, Peter Anderson, Mark Brimble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign direct investment and local spillovers in the apparel sector in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2013
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the apparel sector in several Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has experienced significant growth in the context of preferential market access.
Staritz, Cornelia
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Broadening the semiaquatic scene: Quantification of long bone microanatomy across pinnipeds

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Investigations of bone microanatomy are commonly used to explore lifestyle strategies in vertebrates. While distinct microanatomical limb bone features have been established for exclusively aquatic and terrestrial lifestyles, identifying clear patterns for the semiaquatic lifestyle remains more challenging.
Apolline Alfsen, Christian de Muizon, Olivier Lambert, Giovanni Bianucci, Antonia R. Kaffler, Matthew R. McCurry, Alexandra Houssaye, Rafael M. Varas‐Malca, Rodolfo Salas‐Gismondi, Oliver Hampe, Eli Amson   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source