How has Bangladesh rapidly reduced poverty?
Is it due to microfinance, ngos, economic growth, or an elite consensus?
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Agreed but it doesn't have much explanatory power for B (compared to other countries or possible alternative histories etc ) buyers everywhere, of everything, choose lower price ( for same quality, speed) - firms upgrade in some places but not others
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e. g. BGMEA say reason to keep out foreign factories is that they would raise wages. Important consequence of the elite politics? I'll have to read the book!
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Exactly. Probably not just about bottom line either - low wages may be the USP of some countries. Elsewhere, labour organization, labour market & productivity conditions can make worker welfare more politically salient so that it cannot be just a matter of low wages.
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. So costs of port congestion, high interest rates, electricity outages, politicised unions etc also bear down on wages