Future of Consumption

Bargain-hunters: here’s the real cost of that $10 polyester shirt

A Myanmar migrant works in a Taiwanese-owned garment factory in the northwestern Thai town of Mae Sot May

Your cheap clothes have a hidden cost Image: REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

Stéphanie Thomson
Writer, Forum Agenda
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