OP-ED & Interviews

The first Labour Demand Survey (LDS) in Sri Lanka, conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, recorded nearly half a million vacancies in the private sector.

H&M in its new high-end product Arket introduced “transparent tagging,” where they mention the supplying factory names as well as some other key details of manufacturing.

Partly because it is such a massive global industry, the textile trade is closely linked to a number of development issues such as employment and labor, and also the promotion of clean technologies.

There is no denying the fact that Pakistan’s textile industry has become regionally uncompetitive, but it is not because of the industry’s inefficiency.

In 2010 a spate of suicides at factories in southern China owned by Foxconn, a contract manufacturer for some of the world’s leading electronics brands, highlighted poor conditions faced by its assembly workers.

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) amendment of its constitution to include a charter pledging to “pursue the Belt and Road initiative (BRI),”approved at the close of its recent twice-a-decade 19th Party Congress, underlines the importance of BRI for President Xi Jinping personally and his growing desire for China to take a global leadership role.

Much of Asia isn’t ready for robots, for reasons that go beyond fears of unemployment. In a positive move, countries are training workers to fix machines, writes Stephen Groff.

For Bangladesh 2017 has been a mixed year of achievements and challenges. Though some macro indicators reflect the positive trends, the overall strength of the economy is weakening due to a number of developments toward the second half of the year.

China has gradually been shifting from labour-intensive to capital-intensive industries.

International Labour Organization (ILO) outgoing Bangladesh Country Director Srinivas B Reddy has said the organization will focus on social dialogue to promote freedom of association, collective bargaining, workplace safety, skills development for market needs and labor migration in Bangladesh for the next five years.