At 05:33 PM 1/25/01 -0600, Julia wrote:
>It depends. Is Sri Lanka part of the Third World? I know of at least one
>clothing company that set up a shop there, put in nice, new machines,
>better work environment than any of the other companies doing comparable
>manufacturing there, and paid a better wage -- maybe not twice as nice,
>but on the order of $8 per whatever-amount-of-time rather than the local
>going rate of $6 for the same amount of time; and they caught a lot of
>flack from the other companies doing clothing manufacturing there.
I should point out that term "Third World" is very politically incorrect.
The distinctions are developed world, nations in transition, and developing
world.
But anyways, yes - Sri Lanka is a very poor country (and is currently being
brutalized by a vicious civil war that almost nobody seems to know about).
JDG
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