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Published on the ILO website The 106th Session of the International Labour Conference gets under way in Geneva, Switzerland from June 5-16. Here’s a look at the main issues that will be discussed by government, employer and worker delegates from ...

The export earnings from Bangladesh’s Ready-made Garment industry have fallen in the first ten months of FY 2016-2017 (July-April), a study by Centre for Policy Dialogue revealed. The report “State of the Bangladesh Economy in FY2016-17: Third Reading” said that ...

Published in the ILO website Social dialogue between government, employers’ and workers’ organizations is a powerful tool for correcting labour market imbalances and promoting jobs-rich economic recovery. During and since the economic and financial crisis which started in 2008, national ...

Published in the ILO website  Despite some modest gains in some regions in the world, millions of women are losing ground in their quest for equality in the world of work, according to a new report prepared by the International ...

Published in the Sri Lanka brief on 19, April 2017 The Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) of the European Union (EU) is a trade arrangement that allows developing countries to pay less or no duties on their exports to the ...

Roughly half the world’s population still lives on the equivalent of about US$2 a day. And in too many places, having a job doesn’t guarantee the ability to escape from poverty. A continued lack of decent work opportunities, insufficient investments ...

Published in Clean Clothes Campaign on 5, February, 2017 After years of sanctions, trade with Myanmar (formerly Burma) has started to flow. Low wages and favourable trade conditions are luring garment production from the region to this fragile democracy. Big ...

Published in ILO Website on 2, May  2017 New technologies and the dynamics of job creation Posted on 2 May 2017 Irmgard Nubler, senior economist at the International Labour Organization The recent wave of innovation and technological change has sparked a ...