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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

The company is also stopping production in Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan by April 2014 (these countries scored low in a World Bank report that assessed countries on accountability, corruption, violence, and other metrics).

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Needed: A New Way to Manage Risk in Low Cost Countries

NC State SCRC

Faced with stiff price competition in their home markets, the apparel industry was one of the first to adopt the outsourced supply chain concept (Wieland and Handfield, 2013; 2014). The most obvious way to create social responsibility might be just to avoid sourcing markets with low social standards.

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China and the global textile machinery

Exapro Hub

The study shows that the six largest investors in the short-staple segment in 2017 are: Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, India and Indonesia. Pakistan: 32% / 68%. Source of some data: just-style.com). Increase of shipments of new short-staple spindles for the first time since 2013 (around 1.65m spindles).

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