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Riches from Rags or Persistent Poverty? The Working Lives of Secondhand Clothing Vendors in Maputo, Mozambique

Andrew Brooks Andrew Brooks is a Lecturer in Development Geography at King's College London. His research examines connections between spaces of production and places of consumption, and the geographies of economic and social change in Southern Africa. Andrew spent twelve months living in Maputo, Mozambique, investigating the secondhand clothing trade.
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Peter Davis Sumo. (2022) The Retail Second-hand Clothing Sector in Developing Economy: Case study of Liberia. Croatian Regional Development Journal 3:2, pages 139-160.
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Peter Davis Sumo, Xiaofen Ji & Liling Cai. (2022) Efficiency evaluation and loan assessment of fashion upcyclers in Liberia using fuzzy, DEA and FIS models. Research Journal of Textile and Apparel.
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Efrén Sandoval Hernández. (2019) Second-Hand Clothes: Inequalities between the Global North and the Global South. Frontera norte 31, pages 1-6.
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Christian M. Rogerson. (2016) Policy responses to informality in urban Africa: the example of Maputo, Mozambique. GeoJournal 82:6, pages 1179-1194.
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Nikolay Anguelov. 2015. The Dirty Side of the Garment Industry. The Dirty Side of the Garment Industry 148 183 .
Andrew Brooks & David Simon. (2012) Unravelling the Relationships between Used‐Clothing Imports and the Decline of African Clothing Industries. Development and Change 43:6, pages 1265-1290.
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