Global Trade Liberalization; Impact on the Readymade Garments Industry in Bangladesh

ISBN-13: 9783631522783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 266 str.

Hoque

Opis

Global trade liberalization with regard to the readymade garments industry is a topic of highest relevance for the Bangladeshi economy and linked very strongly to its changing social structure. Garment industry actually is a very new, export-oriented sector of the Bangladesh economy. It was only some twenty years ago that this sector was fully established in Bangladesh. Today it has grown to the number eighteen exporter world-wide, employing some 1.8 million people directly, of whom most of them are women, and another 10 million indirectly. The main markets are the EU and NAFTA. The development of Bangladesh garments industry was facilitated by the different Multi Fibre Arrangements. Therefore - as many other new competitors have grown over the last couple of years, namely South and East Asian including China, the ASEAN, Mexico and 24 Caribbean countries - Bangladesh's garment industry will face a difficult period after 2004.

Spis treści

Contents: Global Trade Liberalization and Bangladesh Readymade Garments Industry - International Regimes in Textile and Clothing - Multi-Fibre Arrangement - Global Market Analysis - Social Aspects and Labour Migration.

O autorze

The Author: Serajul Hoque, born in 1965, studied Bachelor and Master of Commerce in marketing at the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh). Now he is an associate professor of marketing at the University of Dhaka.