OP-ED & Interviews

Published in the Financial Express on July 7, 2017 Monira Munni Export earnings from merchandise products maintained a sluggish growth in the just-concluded fiscal year (FY) 2016-17 with the receipts for the month of June registering a negative growth. Exporters ...

Published on the ILO website  “Let’s not just mark World Environment Day. Let’s make it a reason to put our political will into action. The future of our jobs, and of our children, relies on it,” says ILO Director-General Guy ...

Published in the Dhaka Tribune on June 7, 2017 A fall in global demand for Bangladesh’s lucrative ready-made garments (RMG) sector caused a slowing in the rate of export earnings growth in the last fiscal year, data from the Export ...

Published in the bdnews24.com on 28, May 2017 The proposed BIMSTEC free trade agreement must provide additional benefits ‘beyond and above’ existing trade agreements in place among the member countries if it has to succeed, says Centre for Policy Dialogue ...

Published in eastasiaforum.org on Thursday, 11 May 2017 Bangladesh’s export-oriented ready-made garments (RMG) industry has made significant contributions to the country’s economic development over the last four decades. But this will come undone unless Bangladesh can make progress on workplace safety compliance and ...

Published in the Financial Express on May 7, 2017 Muhammad Zamir The highlight of the last week of April was the observance of programmes marking the fourth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster. The disaster took place on April 24, ...

Published in The Daily Star on Monday, 24 April 2017 The readymade garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh has undertaken significant compliance measures to ensure safety of factories and workers since the Rana Plaza tragedy on April 24, 2013, when an eight-storied commercial ...

Published in The Daily Star on Monday, 24 April 2017 It has been four years since the day in April when the nation and the world was shocked when a garment factory building in Savar came crashing down. 1,129 workers were killed ...

Published in The Financial Express on Tuesday, 22 November 2016  In medical science, a term called ‘Fat Man Syndrome’ is used to indicate a particular physical condition of human being when a person eats excessive amount of food but it is not reflected ...

Just at the time when a major conference on the apparel sector of Bangladesh was held on February 25 in Dhaka with the promise to work together for a better tomorrow, disappointing news on labour rights in the readymade garments sector has surfaced.