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Macroeconomics 6: Trade & The Better Life

Planet Money Summer School

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'Im Mi, Minur're the Father of Shumi and Minu

Four million people in bengladesh are essentially making the same choice that shumi and minu made. They move to the cities to work long hours for very little money, to work in the garment industry. To get here, the sisters take a bus to a motorized rickshaw, and then they walk through the rice pattis home. When we get there, lunch is cooking in the village where shomi and minu grew up.

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