BANGLADESH TOLD TO COPY CHINA TO RETAIN CLOTHING BRANDS
August 1st, 2012
BY POORNA RODRIGO
CLOTHING brands have no shortage of alternative sourcing locations to Bangladesh. And if Bangladesh wants to stop Western buyers from pulling out in the long run, factory owners have to improve productivity so that they can afford higher pay rises than inflation and bring an end to recurrent labour unrest, industry analysts are arguing. This is how China has succeeded in the apparel sector. "However difficult, Bangladesh has to learn to copy China," UK-based Clothesource CEO Mike Flanagan argues.
China has "scarcely added a ...
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