Foreign market access and competition in India's textile and clothing industries: Impacts on firms and workers

Janneke Pieters

Krisztina Kis-Katos

31 March 2017

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Notes from the Field

IGC Research on India

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This project aims to estimate the effects of foreign market access and export competition on plants and workers in the textiles and clothing industries in India. It do so by analysing the effects of two important changes in the global textiles and clothing trade arena in the period 1995-2005.

Janneke Pieters

Wageningen University

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Krisztina Kis-Katos

University of Freiburg

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