Today, The Wall Street Journal reports that in 2003, China made 17% of the world's textiles and clothes.
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They had ten years' warning of the demise of the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Textiles and Clothing that limited imports from developing countries.
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Despite huge strides towards open markets over the past 50 years, big swathes of the world economy, such as agriculture, textiles and shipping, remain highly protected.
Nordas says China accounts for 30% of the world exports in clothing and 22% of textiles (as of 2002), and that its share is indeed growing.
Moore's work in textiles was inspired by his aims as an artist after the second world war, particularly his belief, as a Socialist, that art could be a cohesive force in society, bringing together communities through creative public projects.
"We have been able to see a lot of foreign direct investment moving into the country, we have been able to create a lot of jobs in apparels and textiles, " Mpo Madayay, Lesotho trade minister told the BBC's World Business Report.
IMF's World Economic Outlook last October pointed out, productivity gains from previous technological revolutions, from railways and textiles to electricity and the car, have gone largely to consumers.
But that is not the same as its share of the world market since many countries, including the U.S., make some of their own clothing and textiles.
It has happened because rich-world companies have replaced workers with new technology to boost productivity and shifted production from labour-intensive products such as textiles to higher-tech, higher value-added, sectors such as pharmaceuticals.
The museum's collection comprises more than 6, 300 objects including pre-historic tools, Bronze Age, Roman and Saxon artefacts, maps, textiles, books, paintings and prints, together with objects and ephemera from before Victorian times up to World War II, the 1950s and the present day.
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