Published in Dhaka Tribune on Wednesday, 20 July 2016 Bangladesh proceeds with strong foothold in global apparel market Ibrahim Hossain Ovi Bangladesh continues to make its firm footing in the global apparel markets that it has successfully shone in all of its ...

A new study by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) titled “New Dynamics in Bangladesh’s Apparels Enterprises: Perspectives on Restructuring, Upgradation and Compliance Assurance” was launched at an event held on 31 May (Tuesday) in the presence of key involved ...

Bangladesh’s RMG sector is slowly heading towards developing a decent working environment. To increase the pace of this development process, a more coordinated and institutionalised approach should be taken by the government so that the country can avoid incidents like ...

All initiatives concerning the post-Rana Plaza deliverables undertaken in the last two years should soon meet the expected outcome, observed discussants at the fourth CPD dialogue on the tragic incident. The consequences and lessons emerging from the Rana Plaza collapse ...

Tragedy like Rana Plaza does not happen in a vacuum and all of us are responsible for this. The government, RMG factory owners, workers- nobody played their due role to avoid such incident, said Dr Jean Lebel, President of International ...

Bangladeshi apparels industries should allocate additional margin for compliance in order to ensure labour welfare and thus increase sustainability of the sector. Strengthening government’s institutional mechanism and social audit system set up by buyers and retailers would be essential to ...