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The Sustainable Development of Leather Industries in Bangladesh

In: Trade, Environment & Sustainable Development

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  • Fasih Uddin Mahtab

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Recent trends in leather production worldwide point to the transfer of production from developed nations to developing nations, where low-cost labour is a comparative advantage. Although Bangladesh has made modest moves to establish itself as an important producer of leather and leather goods, several important technological and environmental concerns have arisen. These require urgent attention on the part of the government and industry if Bangladesh is to rely on leather production as a major support for its sustainable development. These concerns include the supply of quality raw hides and skins, the need to modernise existing plants, intensification of leather and leather goods research and development and control of pollution caused in the manufacture and tanning of leather. This chapter seeks briefly to examine these issues and provides some recommendations for how these technological and environmental concerns can be incorporated into an overall policy of sustainable leather production.

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  • Fasih Uddin Mahtab, 1997. "The Sustainable Development of Leather Industries in Bangladesh," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Veena Jha & Grant Hewison & Maree Underhill (ed.), Trade, Environment & Sustainable Development, chapter 7, pages 97-104, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25417-0_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25417-0_8
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