00672nam a2200085Ia 4500100002300000245008400023260000900107520045100116583001900567 aMortimore, Michael aApparel-based industrializatrion in the Caribbean Basin : a threadbare garment? c1999 aNotes that the apparel-base industrialization in the Caribbean Basin can be said to be a 'threadbare garment' because - instead of deepening national industrialization it truncates it. The exports do not represent the external projection of the local industrialization process but merely the assembly of imported components. The local apparel companies are not internationalized in the process, but instead have their very existence threatened. c2/14/01kJOY_D