Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1934. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 299-301.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

M. Tech. Fashion Design / Multi-Fibre Arrangement, which regulated all trade in the apparel manufacturing industries for four decades, ceased to exist in 2005, this resulted in a significant decline in employment, exports and market share of apparel manufacturing of South Africa as the case in many other African countries. Since 2005, the apparel manufacturing industry of South African has been battling to adjust adequately to environment of liberalised trade mainly due to strategic, infrastructural and skills factors. The lack of a skilled workforce, innovation and technology, fashion focusing strategies as well as a weak local supply chain remain challenging factors to competitiveness in the apparel manufacturing industry of South Africa. Apparel manufacturing industries appear to display weakness in responding to consumer demands and consequently, reorienting business strategies. Government has played its supportive role to the apparel manufacturing industry. As a result, apparel manufacturing SMMEs have being dying a slow death due to the lack of access to government supportive measures for the apparel manufacturing industry. In light of this, this paper examines how the apparel manufacturing industry in South Africa could develop a competitive advantage, both locally and internationally.

With the end of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA), many have predicted that countries in Africa will lose their comparatively inefficient clothing and textile industry as competition from China increases. Madagascar has not escaped such threat. The clothing and textile industry is important to Madagascar in terms of export revenue, employment creation and income generation. Trade agreements have played an essential role in the growth of the clothing industry as Madagascar is eligible for both AGOA (Africa Growth and Opportunity Act) and European Union ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) trade benefits. This paper aims to find out how the end of the MFA has affected the industry thus far, investigate the competitiveness of the Madagascar garment industry to respond to this new global change, assess strategies firms and government have for the future, and offer policy suggestions on how firms can be supported to encourage them to remain in Madagascar. / Thesis (M.Dev.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1934. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 299-301.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Human Environment: Design Management, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 8, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-352). Also issued in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1922. / Biographical note. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-161). Also available on the Internet.