Thesis (M.S.)--University of Kentucky, 2006. / Title from document title page (viewed on July 18, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 78 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-78).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 1987. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-144). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1920. / Vita. Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references.

Dissertation submitted in compliance with the requirements for the Master's Diploma in Technology: Fashion, Technikon Natal, 1995. / This study evaluated the programme content on tailoring of the National Diploma: Clothing Design and National Diploma: Clothing Management in terms of the needs of the clothing industry. The objective was to identify the critical factors needed for producing a manual on tailoring which could be used in a teaching environment. / M

[No abstract available] / Land and Food Systems, Faculty of / Graduate

The history of the lumber trade of British Columbia has been one of considerable fluctuation and recurring crises occasioned by historical changes over which the industry has had no control. With no large permanent home market to depend upon for stability, it has had to attain a flexibility which would allow it to accommodate itself to the ever-changing complexity of world markets, In its pioneer phase (1851-1886) the trade could depend on only small local markets in Victoria, New Westminster and, to some extent, San Francisco. With a scarcity of operating capital , no rail transportation whatever, and inadequate water transportation controlled by San Francisco brokers, the infant industry located on Vancouver Island, on Burrard Inlet and at New Westminster struggled for survival. Despite these handicaps, certain fairly reliable markets were gradually established In the awakening Pacific community in Australia, Chile, the Sandwich Islands, and China. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (1886) marked the real beginning of the lumber trade in British Columbia, it made possible the exploitation of the interior forests, presented the trade with the Prairie market, which was to sustain it until 1913 and it attracted plentiful capital to the industry for the first time. The completion of the Panama Canal in 1914 marked the third phase of the history of the trade, for it opened to the industry the communities of the Atlantic, especially the seaboard of the United States and the important United Kingdom market, This new cargo trade rescued the ailing industry from the collapse of the Prairie demand. The pattern of the lumber trade changed again after 1940. War-time shipping difficulties, followed by a seemingly permanent dollar shortage in the sterling area largely diminished the importance of the United Kingdom market a sustained period of prosperity in the United States, however, facilitated a shift of trade lines from the Old World to the New. The change was accelerated and consolidated by the rise of giant American cellulose corporations which invested heavily In British Columbia forest lands and production plants and integrated them into vast international complexes of industries whose main market is the pulp, lumber, and cellulose-hungry industries of the United States. This thesis attempts to trace these economic changes in the light of changing historical conditions and to discover the pattern which emerges from them. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

In order to correctly assess the current status of antidumping law in South Africa, as well as to determine the role that it will play in the future, it is necessary to take its historical setting into account . This requires an investigation into the origins of South African anti-dumping law and the manner in which it was applied in the past.· In this regard the economic and political conditions which prevailed in the past are relevant as is the way in which these conditions have changed. As will become evident there has been much change regarding anti-dumping law in South Africa. This process of transition, concerning the status and role of anti-dumping law, must be recognised as forming the background when analysing the current position of anti-dumping law in South Africa. To determine a way forward for the law relating to dumping, in a manner that takes these economic and political changes accurately into account, and which is of a nature that is practically workable for South Africa, it is desirable to ref er to other legal systems and how these legal systems have used and developed their anti-dumping law.

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Includes bibliographical references. / The central question and motivation behind this paper is to determine whether trade preference agreements facilitate permanent economic development, or if they merely temporarily increase the volume of exports over the period of preferential market access. The paper will evaluate this, by using the case study of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) enacted by the United States (US) in 2000. The literature and empirical data show that exports do increase in certain cases under trade preference agreements, however what is missing to a large extent is the impact that these increased exports have on facilitating competitive industrial development through learning-by-doing spill over effects. The objective of this paper is to identity evidence which supports the notion that trade preferences have the potential to advance competitive industrial development, by specifically looking at the impact that AGOA has had on eligible Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries exports to third countries since its enactment in 2000 as the indicator of trade induced permanent economic development. This is one indicator of many, such as labour productivity, manufacturing output, foreign direct investment, and GDP per capita which could also be used as indicators of development. The remainder of this paper is organised as follows. In the second section, a review of the theoretical and empirical literature with respect to trade preferences and specifically AGOA preferences is discussed. Section three presents an empirical analysis, firstly in terms of a graphical analysis which is then followed by an econometric analysis. The aim of the empirical analysis is to firstly understand the aggregate story of apparel exports under AGOA preferences, and secondly to test the relationship that trade preferences facilitate economic development through enhanced trade. The fourth section concludes the paper by emphasising the key findings, issues and policy recommendations of the paper.

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