Baptist World Aid advocacy manager Gershon Nimbalker said the majority of the 43 million garment workers in the Asia-Pacific region still earned wages "well below what they need to lift themselves or their families out of poverty".



"But there has been a significant increase in the number of companies that are willing to be transparent about their supplier list," Nimbalker, lead researcher on the report, told BuzzFeed News.

"In 2013, just one-sixth of companies were publishing supplier lists, and this year it is about 34% of them."

OK, so which brands can I keep wearing if I want to support supply chain transparency?

Unfortunately only 17% of companies were able to prove they were paying all workers a living wage, but the good news is that some of the higher-graded brands aren't all expensive labels.

Cotton On Group (which includes the brands Typo, Rubi, Supré, and Factorie) was the best-rated large multinational headquartered in Australia.

Nimbalker said some companies had consistently invested in their transparency and reporting systems year-on-year, and these included Cotton On Group, Country Road Group – which includes Witchery and Trenery – and APG & Co, which includes JAG and Sportscraft.

