Textile and Clothing Sector, and the Industrialization of Sub-Saharan Africa

Yülek, Murat Â.; Yağmur, Mete Han

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78843-2_16

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“…[3][4][5] In African countries, the textile sector is one of industrialized sector that employs a large number of workers. 6 Despite this reality, there are limited number of publications in the literature specifically on respiratory disease for the cotton ginners who are submitted to cotton dust. The few authors who have addressed the health problem among cotton ginner workers, their studies were focused on clinical aspect.…”

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Evaluation of Bohicon cotton ginning factory workers respiratory health using chest radiography

Hounsossou

Ahouansou

Bonou

et al. 2021

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Chest radiography is widely used to monitoring the occupational lung disease caused by the inhalation or ingestion of dust particles. Our goal was to explore the respiratory system disease among cotton ginning workers at Bohicon using radiography.Methods: We performed cross-sectional descriptive from February 25 to June 11, 2015. It included 110 cotton ginners selected from the 416 workers of ginning factory. The study participant underwent a survey and a postero-anterior chest X-ray, respectively. Radiographic examinations were performed with a conventional radiographic device. The radiograms were acquired on analog and were developed with automatic processor. The interpretation has been performed by a radiologist. We performed the data analysis with Epi Info 6.5 software.Results: The mean age of our sample is 33.96±4.22 years with a minimum age of 19 and a maximum of 56 years. Also, it should be noted that 89.1% of workers had between one year and 10 years of work experience. Chest tightness and cough are the most respiratory symptoms raised among its workers. 78.18% of workers said they had cough and 55.45 admitted to having chest tightness. Bronchial lesion was the most observed (70.90%) followed by plural lesion (07.26%). Only seven (07) over 110 (7.28%) participants had a lung lesion.Conclusions: In according our result, chest radiography could be used to respiratory health monitoring for the highlighting bronchial, lung and pleural lesion. A large case-control study will be performed to confirm our findings about this population.

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Evaluation of Bohicon cotton ginning factory workers respiratory health using chest radiography

Hounsossou

Ahouansou

Bonou

et al. 2021

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…In this sector, 33.5% of firms are two-way traders, the content of intermediate imports embodied in exports is 5.6% and the domestic value added contained in exported intermediate products is about 25%. The textile and garment sectors have played a key role in the industrialisation of many countries since the Industrial Revolution, and Sub-Saharan African firms have the potential to be competitive in these sectors (US International Trade Commission, 2009;World Bank, 2020a;Yülek & Ya gmur, 2018). For this reason, the African Development Bank has launched "Fashionomics Africa", which aims to stimulate the sector and help African firms capture more value within GVCs (Fashionomics Africa, 2021).…”

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How do firms in Sub‐Saharan Africa benefit from global value chains?

Calatayud

Barrachina

2023

South African J Economics

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Sub‐Saharan Africa has increased its presence in GVCs but remains the least integrated area in the world. In this paper, we go a step further in the related literature and descend to firm‐level data. Thus, we identify the determinants and effects of GVC participation of manufacturing firms in the region. We use indicators of the extensive and intensive margins of participation and of backward and forward integration. We find that good infrastructure, quality of institutions and security to prevent crime are conducive to participation. In contrast, lack of access to finance, the existence of an informal sector or high trade costs discourage participation. Finally, participation in GVCs has positive effects on firm performance variables (innovation, productivity, wages and employment).

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