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Why it’s a bad idea to kill ‘mitumba’ business

In countries where more than half of the population is living below poverty line, a total ban on importation of second hand clothes is definitely a bad idea and should be thought through.

This move by East African Countries has been arrived at without putting much thought into it.

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