In the hierarchy of jobs in poor countries, sweltering at a sewing machine isn't the bottom.

在贫穷国家的工作等级中，在缝纫机下埋头流汗不是最底层的。

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The poor are also victims of inefficiency - they use inefficient sewing machines, bangle making machines and power looms.

BBC: Powering our way out of poverty

NGOs have followed this route, and now more than 6m poor people (almost all women) have obtained small loans for shops, sewing machines, chicken farming and the like.

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