BANGLADESH APPAREL SECTOR FACES UP TO CHALLENGES AS IT LOOKS TO EXPAND, DHAKA APPAREL SUMMIT HEARS
February 1st, 2017
With the global garment market still growing fast, Bangladesh needs to seize the so-called ‘China-plus’ opportunity while penetrating new markets and diversifying its products, a Dhaka conference has heard.
In a keynote speech Dr Nazneen Ahmed, a senior research fellow at the state-run think-tank Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), argued world apparel sales were USD445 billion in 2015, set to grow USD700 billion by 2021
But uncertainty over Brexit, the new Trump-influenced global trade regime and an India’s textile sector incentive ...
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