{"id":291545,"date":"2019-05-16T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=9f9fb5d076e952cbe8bfa857312ffb20"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:09","slug":"deutsche-welle-europes-textile-buyers-looked-at-ethiopia-as-the-next-low-cost-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/291545","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Welle: Europe\u2019s textile buyers looked at Ethiopia as the next low-cost stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Deutsche Welle\u2019s German-language reportage framed Ethiopia as a next stop for textile and garment production as Asian wages rose and European brands hunted cheaper sewing lines.<\/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=\"Deutsche Welle: Europe\u2019s textile buyers looked at Ethiopia as the next low-cost stop\" \/>\n<p>The story sat beside Hawassa Industrial Park and related parks that Ethiopian officials sold as a path from farming into factory work. Critics already asked whether $26-a-month wages, imported fabric, and weak unions would build a real industry or only another footloose assembly stop.<\/p>\n<p>German and other European media attention mattered because EU buyers and development banks helped shape the same parks that later faced FX shortages, political shock, and labor complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as industry archive, the DW angle is a dated European view of Ethiopia\u2019s garment bet, useful next to NYU wage studies and local reporting from the same season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/de\/textilindustrie-n%C3%A4chster-halt-%C3%A4thiopien\/a-48738669\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textilindustrie: N\u00e4chster Halt \u00c4thiopien&nbsp;&nbsp;Deutsche Welle<\/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-291545","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-1dQl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291545","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=291545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754789,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291545\/revisions\/754789"}],"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=291545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}