high-quality clothing - Haiti Observer Blog

The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) is funding Industrial Revolution II LP (IRII), a recently-created Haiti company to manufacture high-quality clothing. The project is good news for the disenfranchised population of the island, who will be given opportunity for employment at wages above the norm for Haiti workers.

IADB will lend IRII approximately one million dollars to bring a Port-au-Prince clothing plant up to current structural standards for production of higher-quality clothing than is currently being produced. The current model for clothing production relies on large volume, small profit-margin merchandise produced for the masses. This manufacturing model depends on securing the cheapest locales for manufacturing its mass output. When production-facility rents become too high, manufacturers find lower-cost facilities in another country.

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