In the media|15 October 2024
New Report from Oxford Economics Reveals Second-hand Clothes Stimulating Billions of Dollars for Economies in Latest Win for Green Growth
Johanna Neuhoff
Director of Economic Consulting, Continental Europe
Second-hand clothing (SHC) is stimulating billions of dollars in GDP contributions and supporting hundreds of thousands of green jobs across Europe and Africa, a new report from Oxford Economics
This report is the first comprehensive analysis of the sector’s entire value chain and an attempt to quantify the sector’s socio-economic impacts across two continents. It addresses existing knowledge gaps, offering insights that were previously unavailable at this scale, focusing on the EU27+ and Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique.
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