USAID BACKED INITIATIVE HAS HELPED PAKISTANI KNITWEAR SMEs CHANGE COURSE
November 3rd, 2013
While small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan's knitwear sector have significant manufacturing capacity, they have yet to harness their full potential, according to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Pakistan exported USD2.3 billion’s worth of knitwear in 2011 says the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan, and many producers are small. Indeed, there were 85 knitwear garment-exporting enterprises in Lahore in 2012, working with 190 subcontractors, said a Lahore Journal of Economics study, and there are also knitwear ...
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