This guy has it easy compared with you.

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Bricks are one of the biggest industries in Bangladesh. He will be paid about $1.50 for a 10hr day.

One industrialist there told me his textile plant employs 12,000 young women, 3000 young men. Females make better workers. Many have moved from their families in rural Bangladesh to relocate near the capital Dhaka.

He also told me that any man let go by his factory would end up pedalling a cycle rickshaw. $5/day earnings. Any woman would end up breaking bricks into gravel for next to nothing. Those are the lowest paying jobs in Dhaka.

When Western N.G.O.s force factories to release “child workers”, they end up on the street. Nobody returns “home” after moving to the big city.

The author of “Transforming Bangladesh into a Middle Income Economy” is optimistic about the future of his nation.