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 ...

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 2.2 million people suffer occupational injuries, illnesses Around 2.2 million people, ...

Bangladesh must improve labor rights to avoid temporarily losing the generalized system of preferences (GSP) benefit, the European Union said in a letter to Bangladesh government. Generalized system of preferences (GSP) benefit allows Bangladesh duty-free export to the 28-nation economic ...

Published on the ILO website on 5, June 2017 The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder, has told delegates that nothing will more clearly distinguish the first hundred years of the ILO’s history from the second “than ...

Published in the Financial Express on 5, June 2017 Agricultural scientists and researchers at a day-long discussion urged the farmers and others concerned to expand cotton farming in the vast barind tract for boosting up its production to meet up ...

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 Eight RMGs submit plea to PFIs for low-cost fund Eight garment ...

Published in the Financial Express on 5, June 2017 Eight garment owners have submitted applications to the participating financial institutions (PFIs), seeking low-cost fund under Urban Building Safety Project (UBSP) for improving their working conditions. Public Works Department (PWD) under ...

Finance Minister AMA Muhith presented the national budget of Tk  4.0 trillion for the fiscal year 2017-18 on 1, June 2017.  This is his 11th budget, ninth at a stretch. He placed the budget in the parliament with a target ...

  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 BGMEA says proposed budget not RMG sector friendly The Bangladesh ...