India: Low apparel productivity

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The Garment Exporters Association (GEA) has pleaded with the Labour Commission to allow productivity-linked wages. GEA says that apparently wages in India are about 10% lower than China, but in reality they work out to about 40% higher. The average output per worker in India is estimated at about 10 shirts a day, whereas in China, production is about 22 shirts per worker per day. Thus, …