{"id":277020,"date":"2019-05-24T09:12:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZ2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lmp1c3Qtc3R5bGUuY29tL2FuYWx5c2lzL2hvdy10by1zdXBwb3J0LWEtdmlydHVvdXMtc291cmNpbmctY2lyY2xlLWluLWV0aGlvcGlhX2lkMTM2MjMyLmFzcHjSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:06","slug":"a-garment-industry-brief-argued-ethiopia-needed-a-virtuous-sourcing-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277020","title":{"rendered":"A garment-industry brief argued Ethiopia needed a virtuous sourcing circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 just-style published an analysis arguing that garment manufacturing could lift Ethiopia only if Western brands and retailers built a sourcing circle that paid for skills, compliance, and longer contracts rather than racing to the lowest cut-and-sew price.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A garment-industry brief argued Ethiopia needed a virtuous sourcing circle\" \/>\n<p>The piece compared lessons from Bangladesh\u2019s factory boom with Ethiopia\u2019s industrial-park push, and it warned that thin orders and weak wages would leave parks as enclaves instead of national development engines.<\/p>\n<p>Sourcing ethics talk mattered as Hawassa and other parks courted global apparel names while workers already pressed for livable pay.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as textile and business archive, the virtuous-circle brief dates brand-side advice during Ethiopia\u2019s late-2010s garment boom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.just-style.com\/analysis\/how-to-support-a-virtuous-sourcing-circle-in-ethiopia\/\">just-style<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to support a virtuous sourcing circle in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;just-style.comFrom Bangladesh to Ethiopia, garment manufacturing is a potential path to economic development. But this will only happen if Western brands and retailers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a44","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754904,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277020\/revisions\/754904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}