Automated fashion manufacturing threats emerging countries

In Bangladesh, an independent country since 1971 with 165 million people, more than 300,000 jobs were created per year between 2003 and 2010 in the garment and textile sector. However, this fell to 60,000 last year (World Bank). “We are facing a social time bomb”, said Zahid Hussain, Economist at the World Bank. “In 2017, the fashion industry drove 81% of Bangladeshi exports. However, it is now relatively easy to introduce automation, especially in the creation of knitted garments, already the