OXFORD – The secondhand clothing sector is generating billions of dollars in GDP contributions while supporting hundreds of thousands of green jobs across Europe and Africa, according to a new report.
The study, by global economic forecaster Oxford Economics, claims to be the first comprehensive analysis of the sector’s entire value chain and an attempt to quantify its socio-economic impacts across two continents, focusing on the EU27+ and Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique.
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