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Gender Benders in Off-Shore Production: Bangladesh-China Comparisons

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To climb the middle-income ladder and streamline the sustainable development goals (SDG) by 2030, Bangladesh’s women must be more engaged. Borrowing from China in two cases, this chapter argues, Bangladesh’s chances improve greatly: involving what Chairman Mao Zedong called ‘half of the sky’, that is, women, in the work-setting; and inducing the women-dominated RMG (ready-market-garment) sector in China to shift to lower-waged Bangladesh. Both are explored in the chapter through (a) a comparative study of working women in the two countries and (b) inducement assessments for China to shift production to Bangladesh.

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Ahmed, S.N. (2019). Gender Benders in Off-Shore Production: Bangladesh-China Comparisons. In: Hussain, I. (eds) South Asia in Global Power Rivalry. Global Political Transitions. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7240-7_6

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