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Four years after Rana Plaza disaster, has anything changed?

Rana Plaza

Source: EPA

The collapse of the complex, built on swampy ground outside the capital Dhaka, sparked demands for greater safety in the world's second-largest exporter of ready made garments and put pressure on companies buying clothing from Bangladesh to act. The duty-free access offered by Western nations and low wages for its workers helped turn Bangladesh's garment exports into an industry with $25 billion in annual revenue. Sixty percent of the clothes go to Europe, 23 percent to the United States and 5 percent to Canada.



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