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They also face difficulty in finding work especially in garment making, the one industry with a lot of jobs to offer in Bangladesh, despite its history of danger.
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What it does have going for it is a large population, with most of its 150 million people of working age, and relatively low wages, which helped fuel a manufacturing boom centered around garment making.
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Chinese companies have been investing in electronics, infrastructure projects, garment-making, and much else.
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That will be vital to reviving the decrepit economy, in particular its garment-making.
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To what extent Leapfrog is a response to genuine market need, as opposed to a piece of industrial policy intended to keep the European garment-making industry alive in the face of competition from low-wage countries, is not yet clear.
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Women and children illegally trafficked become involved in many other industries too, such as carpet and garment manufacturing and brick making, often ending up working long hours for low wages.
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After 2005, garment quotas will be abolished, making imports into the region cost less.
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It also means that the ink can be easily removed from a garment before it is recycled, making the sorting of fabrics by color during the recycling process much easier.
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She then spent years, in New York's Garment District along Seventh Avenue, making sketches and picking up pins for male designers who proved cloth-eared where her ideas for fashions were concerned.
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Bangladesh has one of the largest garment industries in the world, with the sector making up almost 80% of the country's annual exports.
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Instead of making the sleeves of a jacket first and then the body, assembling the garment in a series of steps, his workers make sleeves and body simultaneously, working in parallel with others who are stitching other sections.
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