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In the Balance: After Rana Plaza

26/10/2013

After Rana Plaza

BBC World Service - In the Balance, After Rana Plaza

Who should take responsibility for conditions in Bangladesh's garment industry?

Ed Butler is in Dhaka where the wounds inflicted by the Rana Plaza disaster are still raw.  Who should take responsibility for the conditions in the country's factories?

Bangladesh has the lowest wage garment economy in the world and is still reeling from a catastrophic factory building collapse six months ago in which more than 1130 people died.  Most of them have received little or no long term compensation for the deaths of their relatives, or for their own injuries.  In the Balance comes from Dhaka where the wounds inflicted by the Rana Plaza disaster are still raw.  Ed Butler asks a factory owner, a union leader and a leading economist as well as an audience of Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, campaigners and students, who should take responsibility for the conditions in the country's factories.  And should western consumers think again about how cheap their clothes should be?

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