AsiaInspection predicts 2014 to be year of transparency in supply chains

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Last year was not a good one for workers in Asia – collapsing factories, facility fires, stagnant wages and spiralling living costs – and the rest of the world came to know about it. As a result, found research company AsiaInspection, audits of suppliers in countries such as Bangladesh, India and China shot up dramatically, by 61% in Bangladesh. With an astonishing – and frankly repulsive – 78m children of 17 and under in work in the Asia Pacific region ...