Organisations like the World Bank and the IMF, as well as the United States have all made clear that they want the UAE to improve labour conditions.

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"There is too much attention over and over on those brands that really have started to make changes" in the West, and not enough focus on lesser-known Asia brands that also serve giant markets, said Jill Tucker, chief technical adviser at Better Factories Cambodia, a project of the International Labour Organization that works to improve factory conditions in the Southeast Asian country.

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Once all the available labour was already working in the factories then conditions and wages in the factories would improve.

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