Various trade reform measures in Bangladesh considered from 1970s have been the most beneficial to Ready-made garments (RMG) industry in generating employment, and income. RMG industry has provided enormous opportunities to Bangladeshi women to work outside the home for wages. It is opined in...

There is an important debate going on in South Africa on whether to apply safeguard trade barriers to protect textiles. This presents an interesting case of how a country might use safeguard trade barriers in order to better achieve a domestic policy objective. Much of the current discourse on...