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 Seven local firms get approval for overseas investment Bangladesh Bank has ...

Published on the ILO website Competition among global garment buyers across the region is therefore motivated not just by the drive to expand export market share and economic growth but also by the potential to create jobs. The key, however, ...

Published in the Dhaka Tribune on 19, July  2017 Bangladesh Bank has approved the proposals of seven local firms to bring their capital aboard for investment. Central bank’s Executive Director ANM Abul Kashem made the disclosure while speaking at a ...

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 Local apparel-makers lift objection to FDI in RMG outside EPZs The ...

Published in the Financial Express on 18, July 2017 Syful Islam The country’s apparel-makers have finally withdrawn their objection to foreign direct investment (FDI) in readymade garment (RMG) industry outside the export processing zones (EPZs), officials said. Now the government ...

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 Body to finalise draft labour law suiting int’l prescription The government ...

Published in the Financial Express on 17 July 2017 The government formed a high-level committee to finalise the draft amendments to labour-and EPZ laws accommodating all labour-rights issues raised by western stakeholders, failing which Bangladesh’s European GSP may also be ...

Published in the Daily Star on July 17, 2017 Refayet Ullah Mirdha Despite having huge potential in home textile, Bangladesh is unable to expand its market share in the European Union because of duty benefits extended to Pakistan, a cotton ...

Published on the ILO website This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of how trade and trade policies shape job creation and destruction across countries in the context of a globally fragmented production, by considering manufacturing and services ...

Published in the Dhaka Tribune on 14, July 2017 Bangladesh Apparel Exchange (BAE) – a private initiative to promote Bangladesh apparel industry – is going to organise a workshop on how to develop an apparel brand. The day-long workshop titled ...