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Title: Do Sweatshops Lift Workers Out of Poverty? Authors: CHRISTOPHER BLATTMAN and STEFAN DERCON

*Source: * NY Times

*Date: *April 27, 2017

Summary: In the 1990s, Americans learned more about the appalling conditions at the factories where our sneakers and T-shirts were made, and opposition to sweatshops surged. But some economists pushed back.

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