> Rich countries are dumping free clothing by the ton to poor countries,
> especially in Africa. Some *African* sociologists are pleading the rich
> countries to stop that because they are killing the local textile economy
> with it.

You'd need to weigh up what was better, having a local textile economy 
with a group of people unable to afford clothes, or no local textile 
economy but everyone gets clothes. I don't know for sure what the answer 
would be, but I suspect it's better that everyone gets free clothes 
(some proportion of the ones who worked in the textile companies would 
find other jobs). It seems the majority of Africans agree otherwise 
there wouldn't be the "problem".

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