Policy Issues on Promoting Backward Linkages from the Garment Industry in Sri Lanka

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dc.creatorKelegama, Saman
dc.creatorFoley, Fritz
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dc.date.created2018-03-12T11:30:09Z
dc.date.issued1996
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the slow growth of local supplies to the garment industry in Sri Lanka. We have shown that the overall investment environment in Sri Lanka and international demand patterns constrain the formation of competitive local producers of fabric and garment accessories. We have also shown that building and maintaining sources of competitive advantage among producers of garment inputs are crucial to their development and viability in a highly integrated global economic environment. From the Sri Lankan garment industry experience and from the available evidence from other countries, we have argued, in general, that the empasis on backward linkages industrialization is somewhat misplaced. Changes in the global environment and international demand patterns have made backward linkage effects less powerful than they were for import-substitution industrialization strategy in a closed economy. Although local supplies are useful and vluable, they cannot function unless conditions exist which allow them to be competitive.
dc.identifierhttp://172.16.21.42/handle/123/56
dc.identifierInstitute of Policy Studies, 1996
dc.identifier.urihttp://172.16.30.46:4000/handle/789/4666
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInstitute of Policy Studies, 1996
dc.relationResearch studies industrialization series;5
dc.subjectSri Lanka
dc.subjectGarment industry
dc.titlePolicy Issues on Promoting Backward Linkages from the Garment Industry in Sri Lanka
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