Garment Production under AGOA in the Free-zone Areas of Ghana

Over the past decade, U.S government initiative on poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan African countries (African Growth and Opportunity Act,AGOA) has been in force and Ghana is a beneficiary country for apparel provision among others. Other African countries have made tremendous gains with the apparel provisions under AGOA.How did Ghana utilize this advantage? This book looks at the extent to which the objectives of AGOA have been achieved through the apparel provision in the Ghanaian context; The benefits being derived by garment producing industries under AGOA; the challenges they are facing and the strategies that will help improve garment production in Ghana in order to maximize the advantage derived from the Apparel provision under AGOA.

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Rosemary Quarcoo holds a bachelors degree and M.Phil in Home Economics(Clothing and Textiles option)from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana: W/A. She is a Home Economics Lecturer(Clothing and Textiles) at the University of Education Winneba, Ghana: W/A. She is passionate in seeing to it that, Clothing and Textiles Education benefit the world.