Word: joshi
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What could be impending catastrophe for Begum means relief for Susheil Joshi. Behind him in his Hong Kong office, Joshi--one of those who will help decide the fate of Begum and many like her next year--has a color-coded map of the world, with 36 countries highlighted. These are places visited each year by Joshi, who buys the merchandise that the Children's Place, a North American chain of affordable-clothing stores, sells in America...
...credit-rating agency ICRA, warns that uncertainties remain. He points out that the country's textile industry is highly fragmented, made up of thousands of small manufacturers. Whether they will survive after 2005, when exporters will have to compensate for falling prices by selling more volume, is unclear. Joshi of the Children's Place adds that, unlike China, India still doesn't have many large, modern apparel factories and that its often antiquated plants might struggle to handle the flood of new orders. For India, he says, "it will be like surfing a wave for 18 months. Either the country...
...What could be impending catastrophe for Begum represents relief for Susheil Joshi. In his office in Hong Kong, Joshi?the kind of person who will help decide the fate of Begum and many like her next year?has a color-coded map of the world behind him. On it, 36 countries are highlighted, places where Joshi, who oversees global sourcing at the Children's Place, a North American chain of affordable-clothing stores, visits each year to buy the merchandise his company sells in America. Joshi does not enjoy having a travel schedule as packed as Kofi Annan...
...craziness comes to an end. That's when a 1995 trade pact called the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, signed by the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), stipulates an end to quotas?and buyers like Joshi are free to find the best deals anywhere they can. Ghulam Faruq, a Bangladeshi textile exporter, says American and European companies that currently buy from about 60 countries might source from as few as 20 by 2006 and less than 10 by 2010. China is expected to be the biggest beneficiary under the new regime. Most analysts expect that efficient Chinese manufacturers...
...baby girls is that many villages and towns lack brides for their young men. (In one of the film's sequences, a village patriarch pays dearly to marry his son off to a heavily veiled stranger who is ultimately revealed as a man.) So when the beautiful Kalki (Tulip Joshi) reaches a marriageable age and her father demands 100,000 rupees for his prize, a village father pays him 500,000 to make her the wife of all five of his grown sons. Each son will have one night a week with her, and father will have...