DEVELOPMENT PAPERS 22-04

Adnan Aliani Officer-in-Charge UNESCAP South and South-West Asia Office 5 South and South-West Asia Development Papers 22-04 March 2022 Enhancing Global Market Competitiveness of Textile and Garment Exports of South Asia Mustafizur Rahman and Khondaker Golam Moazzem1 Abstract The textile and garment sector (T&G) is one of the major industries in most of the South Asian countries, contributing sign. [...] Against this backdrop, this paper dives deep to uncover the underlying drivers of change and attempts to assess the impact and implications of the emerging challenges for the T&G sector of South Asian countries. [...] In this backdrop the study dives deep to discover the underlying drivers of change and makes an attempt to assess the impact and implications of the emerging challenges for the T&G sector of South Asian countries. [...] Structure, Composition and Governance of T&G Value Chains in South Asia 2.1 Country specific structure of T&G sector in South Asia South Asia is one of the major suppliers of textiles and apparels in the world market – about 7.71 per cent of the world textile exports and 13.5 per cent of world apparels exports originates in South Asia. [...] Within the broad categories, a group of enterprises have been gradually investing in process and product upgrading and moving from 9 South and South-West Asia Development Papers 22-04 March 2022 lower end of the demand curve to the mid-segment of the curve.