11. Garment Industries: Its Impact on Economic Growth and Prevailing Challenges Towards Sustainability

The Bangladeshi garment industry is a result of a trade quota system that enabled a degree of economic growth, and also implies questionable social and environmental costs. To further explain the phenomenon of the Bangladeshi garment industry arousal as one of the leading ready garment manufacturers in the world, we will describe what conditions helped them to obtain the role they perform, and associated profitability in the global production network. Further, we will portray the evolution of the exports and its significance for economic growth. We will unveil some global criticisms to the fast fashion production under the lenses of expected sustainability, to finalize describing the general supply management challenges that commonly organizations face to implement successful changes.