LAO GARMENT SECTOR EYES 60,000 WORKERS BY 2015
November 1st, 2012
BY POORNA RODRIGO
The Laos garment manufacturing industry is planning a major publicity campaign to attract more employees, aiming to double its workforce to 60,000 by 2015. The move comes from the Association of the Lao Garment Industry, whose training arm the Garment Skills Development Centre (GSC) will release detailed information of the supposed benefits of taking jobs in the sector.
By international standards, these are low, but Laos is poor - 2011 World Bank data reported its annual gross national income at USD1,130 per capita: "In January 2012 the ...
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