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That's also combined with good-meaning-westerners that donate goods, like clothes. Why's that bad? Because dumping that much textiles on a upcoming economy dest
by crankylinuxuser 8y ago
That's also combined with good-meaning-westerners that donate goods, like clothes. Why's that bad? Because dumping that much textiles on a upcoming economy destroys any burgeoning economics related to the dumped thing.
- jhull 8y agoHere is an article on a block of East African countries trying to prevent this [0] and the backlash [1] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/world/africa/east-africa-rwanda-used-clothing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/world/africa/east-africa-... [1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/31/news/economy/rwanda-us-trade-fight/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/31/news/economy/rwanda-us-trad...