Bangladesh, where four million people are employed in the garment industry, has benefited too.
Hasina's government has come under criticism for its lax oversight over the powerful garment industry.
Bangladesh's garment industry was the third-largest in the world in 2011, after China and Italy.
In practice, they provide cheap labour (mainly from Asia) for the garment industry, farming and fish-processing.
It is time that corrective measures are taken to deal with malpractices that prevail in the garment industry.
The year New Wave Style moved in to Rana Plaza, 2010, was a good one for Bangladesh's garment industry.
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This was the conclusion, for instance, of a study of the Los Angeles garment industry in the 1970s and 1980s.
Mr. Ullah said the Dhaka agency took too long to issue permits at a time when Bangladesh's garment industry was booming.
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By Saturday, they had resumed their grim recovery task, as the death toll surpassed 1, 100 in the world's worst garment industry disaster.
The European Union's delegation to Bangladesh urged the government Wednesday to "act immediately" to improve working conditions in the country's garment industry.
As of 2009, the garment industry in Lesotho provides roughly 40, 000 jobs.
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You put all the pieces together, loving parents who had a job, rode the subway every morning down to the garment industry.
His father had been in the garment industry for decades, and the then-40-year-old David suggested that they begin selling dresses on the internet.
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Local government administrator Yousuf Harun told the Associated Press news agency that they are working with a garment industry body to ensure the workers are paid.
Like Bangladesh, Cambodia has seen rapid growth in its garment industry in recent years as apparel makers look for alternatives to China, where costs are rising.
Bangladesh has built a huge garment industry in the past decade, using the lure of cheap wages to undercut China, which is still the world's largest producer.
Rumors are also circulating thick and fast in the garment industry that has been shocked by the scale of the accident and the huge toll of lives.
The garment industry is hoping a potential relaxation of U.S. sanctions will revive factories there, but a strengthening currency will make it more difficult to compete on cost.
So has its clumsy handling of relations with the EU, where it is poised to lose valuable trade privileges and thus thousands of jobs in the garment industry.
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The garment industry favours the City of Hope Medical Centre.
The tragedy, the deadliest incident in the history of the garment industry, came just months after a fire in another garment factory in Bangladesh in November killed 112 workers.
The mayor, Mr. Ullah, said in the interview last week that the municipal agency had taken too long to issue permits at a time when Bangladesh's garment industry was booming.
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The garment industry is hoping a relaxation of U.S. sanctions, should that occur, will revive factories there, but a strengthening currency will make it more difficult to compete on cost.
The collapse is the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have focused global attention on safety standards in Bangladesh's export garment industry, which is the second biggest after China's.
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The country's powerful garment industry has been plagued by a series of disasters in recent months, including a November fire at the Tazreen factory that killed 112 and the building collapse.
The disaster is the worst ever for Bangladesh's booming and powerful garment industry, surpassing a fire five months ago that killed 112 people and brought widespread pledges to improve the country's worker-safety standards.
In a 1992 case involving the Gambino crime family and the garment industry, Spitzer let the defendants plead to lesser charges and avoid jail time in exchange for getting out of the business entirely.
Stitching up closer trade relations elsewhere for example letting Bangladesh's booming garment industry export 10m pieces duty-free to India, or bidding for a big Indian investment to extract iron ore in Afghanistan also looks designed to win friends.
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At first glance, the situation doesn't look good: His political allies have abandoned him, Bangladesh's most powerful garment industry association says he ignored their warnings to shut the building and the prime minister called for his arrest.
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