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Ethiopia Becomes China’s China in Global Search for Cheap Labour

As costs rise in Asia, once famine-plagued Ethiopia is emerging as a production center for labour-intensive products from shoes to T-shirts to handbags.
A woman in Addis Ababa carries wood to the market | Source: Shutterstock
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