Maya Forstater

Well, if you scroll up, there's been rapid poverty reduction if you look at extreme poverty. But BS questions this measure. Workers are still trapped in poverty, not on living wages.

Well, that graph suggest they do in both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh...? And that's just legally mandated minimum wages, not practices. You also need to cross-check with compliance, which varies considerably.

For example, in the ILO-IFC Better Work Programme in Vietnam (regular monitoring) 27% of factories are non-compliant on wages, 56% non-compliant on over-time wages. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjir.12275/full …

The ILO also has regional data on non-compliance, which you can check. Though obviously that it's very tricky to track this.

Agreed there is non compliance. But even 80% of minimum wage in most apparel exporting countries is above the $10 PPP line. Would be wrong to think of involvement in GVCs in this sector as trapping below this poverty line

Where's the data showing workers are getting 80% of minimum wage?