June 2, 2006
www.fibre2fashion.com
Cambodia was given special access to the US market through a 1999 trade deal that granted quotas in return for improved labor conditions monitored by the UN's labour agency under the 30-year-old multi-fiber arrangement (MFA).
International buyers, such as Gap Inc, helped local manufacturers to mold an image of themselves as responsible corporate citizens who eschewed ‘sweatshop’ labour and hailed the arrangement.
Cambodia has been able to salvage its garment sector, with the number of factories increasing by 13 percent to around 240 with the help of US and European Union safeguards enacted after the end of the MFA.
According to International Labour Organization (ILO) the boom created nearly 30,000 new jobs in a sector that was thought doomed after the end of an international quota system in Jan 2005.
ILO reported, Cambodia's garment and textile exports in 2005 raised 10 percent to nearly 2.2-bln usd, topping 2-bln usd for the first time.
They need to build on the successes and further improve labor standards and productivity in the industry.
Cambodia's export earnings account for 80 percent from garment sector, which employs around 279,000 people, mostly women from the rural areas.
International buyers, such as Gap Inc, helped local manufacturers to mold an image of themselves as responsible corporate citizens who eschewed ‘sweatshop’ labour and hailed the arrangement.
Cambodia has been able to salvage its garment sector, with the number of factories increasing by 13 percent to around 240 with the help of US and European Union safeguards enacted after the end of the MFA.
According to International Labour Organization (ILO) the boom created nearly 30,000 new jobs in a sector that was thought doomed after the end of an international quota system in Jan 2005.
ILO reported, Cambodia's garment and textile exports in 2005 raised 10 percent to nearly 2.2-bln usd, topping 2-bln usd for the first time.
They need to build on the successes and further improve labor standards and productivity in the industry.
Cambodia's export earnings account for 80 percent from garment sector, which employs around 279,000 people, mostly women from the rural areas.
1 comment:
Thank God! Cambodian people have a job! Please give Cambodian people more job, job, and more job! Having a job give meaning to one life.
To me this is amazing about Cambodia. The garment employed around 279,000 Cambodian people and the output of these Cambodian around 2.2 billion dollars! This is only small fraction of the Cambodian population who have job. Now imagine this! If 70% of Cambodian population have job in every sector of the economy and Cambodia could easily generate a trillion dollars economy!
These day HUN SEN don't care much about job creation in Cambodia or where the Cambodia stand in the world. But he seems to care much about what his wife said, pornograhy, and 3G video phone!(This is fuken trivial compare to all other issues that are facing Cambodia today!)
Ever since HUN SEN came to power, Cambodia had wasted so much time in trying to catch with the rest of the world. HUN SEN kept forgetting that when the world come to Cambodia, the World will ask Cambodian people to jump and Cambodian people will say how high!
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