The Cotton Industry and Trade.

The Nexus between Economic Growth and Intra-Industry Trade

According to traditional trade theories, foreign trade affects economic growth via several channels such as knowledge and technology spillover, improvement of resources allocation, increasing productivity and competitiveness. Within the framework of new trade theories, the effect of foreign trade on economic growth is ambiguous, and this effect depends on the combination of the different effect...

Byssinosis in the cotton trade.

The word byssinosis is derived from the Greek word vacros., meaning fine linen. Originally the word was used in a wider, more general sense, whereas to-day it indicates a specific industrial entity. Byssinosis is a respiratory disease affecting workers inhaling dust in cotton mills. The condition has been known to exist for many years, and was first recorded by Greenhow in a report to the Privy...

The Role of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Iran and Malaysia their Intra industry Trade (IIT)

The Turkish Cotton Industry: Structure and Operation

The increasing level of globalization in cotton has led to a greater need for understanding production and marketing systems of coutries other than our own. Turkey is one important country in terms of the magnitude of total cotton production. This paper addresses the system in Turkey, with some discussion of current and future performance of Turkey in the global cotton market. There are signifi...

Byssinosis among winders in the cotton industry.

In a mill spinning coarse cotton the prevalence of byssinosis and other respiratory symptoms, and the F.E.V.1.0, were measured in a group of 29 men and I117 women employed in the winding room. All the men and 95% of the women at risk were included. Dust concentrations, measured with a modified Hexhlet at various work points in the winding room, ranged from i-65 to 6 o5 mg. Jm.3 total dust. Thes...