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Cambodia Falls Short as Garment-Industry Model

8 July 2013
Wall Street Journal
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This small Southeast Asian country was supposed to become a model for the world apparel industry, with tough factory monitoring and strong worker protections. But a dozen years after the United Nations’ International Labour Organization launched a program to manage Cambodia’s booming garment trade—the first of ...

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