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Yes, absolutely, and it's not a new idea, e.g. "sending shirts destroys local textile economies by flooding the market with free goods and undercutting local t-shirt producers" [1]. 1. http://freakonomics.com/2011/02/15/what-happens-to-all-those...
This allows those communities to dedicate resources that would have gone towards shirt manufacturing into something more valueable. Textile economies are a mostly waste of human ingenuity and time, and have been since the Jacquard Loom at least.
Within our lifetimes, this reasoning will apply to more professions than you might think. "Dignity is more important than wealth" and all...