a 'Beautiful Side of Globalization'

a 'Beautiful Side of Globalization'
They, in turn, can be pressed to make oil; mulberry trees and bamboo to make paper; jungle vine to make bags.
"We are providing them with simple technology - really simple technology - like a pulper and a press," Hietala said. project is over,[url=http://discountsoccercleatsonline.webmium.com/][b]http://discountsoccercleatsonline.webmium.com/[/b][/url], sell their own products. And that is where Carol comes in."
Cassidy met Hietala and saw a version of the bag last year in a trade fair in Vientiane, Laos' capital and a few hundred miles from Pakor.
Hietala said, "Vientiane is a small town. Everyone knows Carol. Everyone knows Lao Textiles. It's a very big thing. military tried to cut off supply lines to communists in neighboring Vietnam. departed, allowing communist governments to take power. The same government controls Laos today.
Lao Textiles, which Cassidy officially opened in 1990, was the first American business in Lao. She was a pioneer when the government began to slowly liberalize foreign investment laws in the mid 1980s. Despite the leadership's reputation, Cassidy said, "It's been easy." The government first granted her a 15-year visa, then gave her a 20-year extension and has allowed her to send her profits back to the Untied States.
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Cassidy employs 50 weavers and a small legion of farmers who work from their own villages. Some of the farmers help weave the material they grow, and some simply deliver the silk.
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Cassidy had seen weavers in Mexico when she was 12, then studied weaving at the Art Academy in Norway. She worked for the United Nations in Africa before arriving in Laos in 1989.
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