2024 OCTOBER ISSUE
SPECIAL REPORT BANGLADESH
Written by Andrew Sia
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From the Desk of the Publisher
We featured the country report for Bangladesh in our January 2016 issue. Since then the country has become the world’s second largest exporter for clothing.
The country went through its election in January and its ruling party, Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League, won a majority of 225 seats out of the 300 contested seats. But the country fall into its political turmoil with its university students entered into protests for its inequality in providing employment opportunities. In August 5, its Prime Minister Hasina fled the country and left the country in chaos. It is waiting for the new election to take place some time later.
We would want to point out that the clothing industry doesn’t contain too many technical elements and there is also the limitation for automation. The designs and the manufacturing of those special effects and treatments don’t allow the standardization. And in some instances, finishing with handwork is required to make the garment more outstanding and fashionable.
Anyway, we wish the country to come back to its good old days where the employment can be sufficient to meet those labor needs. This is the time to think for the value-added and more higher value production. After all there is the skillfulness and the niche that can’t be neglected.
