{"id":277138,"date":"2019-05-26T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiENw1OOGdpsWU4cRj3LARB0wqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowiYr-CjD1iIoDMOm16QU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:55:04","slug":"the-hindu-said-ethiopia-was-courting-indian-garment-exporters-and-factory-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277138","title":{"rendered":"The Hindu said Ethiopia was courting Indian garment exporters and factory jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Hindu described young Ethiopian graduates such as Melat and Rahel landing first jobs in Indian-owned textile plants, as New Delhi exporters looked at Ethiopia for lower-cost capacity.<\/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=\"The Hindu said Ethiopia was courting Indian garment exporters and factory jobs\" \/>\n<p>Indian capital in Hawassa and other parks was part of a wider South\u2013South manufacturing push that competed with Chinese and Turkish investors for Ethiopian labor and land.<\/p>\n<p>Worker stories in foreign-owned lines show both opportunity and the thin wages that later fueled livable-wage campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as textile FDI archive, the Hindu feature dates India\u2019s garment footprint inside Ethiopia\u2019s industrial-park boom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Industry\/ethiopia-beckons-indian-garment-exporters\/article27239890.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia beckons Indian garment exporters&nbsp;&nbsp;The HinduMelat and Rahel, both 24 years of age, completed their studies last year in the east African country of Ethiopia and landed their first job in an Indian textile &#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-277138","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-1a5Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277138","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=277138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754919,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277138\/revisions\/754919"}],"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=277138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}