The government plans to set a $40 billion goods export target with a 7.14% growth for fiscal year 2018-19, riding largely on the apparel industry’s success, the largest contributor to overall export earnings.

The process to fix minimum wages for the readymade garment sector is going on at a slow pace, much to the annoyance of rights groups and workers, labour leaders said.

Garment shipments to India, a country with a $50 billion apparel market, more than doubled in the first 11 months of the fiscal year -- in a promising development for Bangladesh's manufacturers.

Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed. 63% ADP allocations spent in July-May The government spent almost 63 ...

The government has decided to offer assistance for treatment of sick readymade garment workers and education of workers’ children from the RMG sector Central Welfare Fund.

Bangladesh exported fan jerseys worth $1 billion for all 32 nations participating in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in what can be viewed as an exciting opening for the country's garment exporters.

LIMITED scope for technical education which fails to meet the requirement of the apparel industry in Bangladesh appears to be gravely concerning in that while several billion dollars in salaries and allowances paid to top-level foreign employees fly out of the country, the situation, if it continues for long, is likely to spell a disaster for the industry as it would grow further.

Every day, CPD RMG Study team reveals what’s on our economic and apparel radar and curates a selection of the best reports, opinion, and analysis you may have missed. Many factories yet to pay due salaries of workers Nearly 40 ...

For many years, discussion of the global garment industry has been dominated by the following question: Where were your clothes made, and by whom?

The government has started issuing show-cause letter to the readymade garment factories which have made less than 30 per cent progress on remediation, seeking explanation why their production activities would not be suspended due to non-compliance.