People who are the leaders of different donation agencies are driven by the love of money; as the adage goes love of money is the source of all evil they make strategies of selling these clothes to third world countries. Africa attracts many investors and sellers who bring less expensive items with the market targeting a high-profit margin. The demand of low-cost items is high since many people have a low-income level.
Africa is popularly known by its good appetite for the less expensive commodities, second hand clothes being one of the commodities which are on high demand. Nearly everyone wears these kinds of clothing since some are of high quality though they are not new. Since everyone can afford this kind of clothing, they really sell more than hot cakes as rated.
This kind of business brings more good harm than good to the economy of the third world countries, though the country earns taxation income when these garments are shipped in other demerits follow. Loss of jobs to workers in local production firms, small-scale producers lose their market and so on. These demerits bite hard the economy and its growth declines.
Africa being a continent blessed with natural resources and rich flora and fauna which help the continent to have a good flow of foreign currency. There are major commodities which are exported like coffee, tea and so on though there are also minor commodities which scales the economy rate at a higher level, the items include locally made clothes which are beautifully designed and attracts everyones eyes. They include the Maasai-Shukas which normally are popular in Kenya, this patrol community has the pride of their clothes.
Textile industries collapse due to low market forces hence end up sending the workers home since the products they make are no longer marketable. When jobs are lost the workers end up being a security threat since robbery increases at a higher rate. Families of people who are employed by the textile firms ends up lacking basic needs and in this case they become beggars.
Firms which donate these clothes are like Salvation Army make things clear in their website that they do sell these clothes for the good will. Money collected in this trade does help greatly for the smooth running of the organization. It is used to pay the workers and help in shipping of the clothes to Africa and other continents.
Developing countries should come up with means to curb flooding of donated clothes. This includes reducing taxation of local garments and increasing the taxation rate of imported clothes. When this is done the countries economy will scale to greater heights.
About the Author:
No comments:
Post a Comment