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Title: | Garment making in a low-wage nation: the case of Ethiopia |
Author: | Bottomley, Anthony |
Year: | 1975 |
Periodical: | Economic Bulletin for Africa - ECA |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-11 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | clothing industry small-scale industry |
Abstract: | Unlike cotton growing and spinning plus weaving, the outlines of the costs and revenues of the - third major component of the Ethiopian textile industry, garment making, are not easily discerned. The multiplicity of producers making different things in different ways have succeeded in obscuring their financial position. Nevertheless, to formulate plausible policy recommendations for the development of the garment making industry in Ethiopia as well as in other low-wage African countries, it suffices to deploy the fragmentary information with regard to: 1) types of production and 2) export promotion. The author argues that a case can and should be made to the aid agencies (Worldbank, etc.) that garment making for export is a relatively simple technology, labour-intensive industry with minimal possibilities of economies of scale, that is ideally suited to low-wage African countries such as Ethiopia, and that such skills as are required are already wide-spread throughout -the continent. Notes, table, figures. |