CPD Publication

CPD Working Paper 129 New Minimum Wage of the RMG Sector Addressing the Issues of Non-Compliance in Implementation The announcement of new minimum wages for the export-oriented readymade garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh in August 2018 had exposed a number ...

New Dynamics in Bangladesh’s Apparels Enterprises The CPD‐RMG Study was motivated by a tragedy and inspired by a conviction to contribute to national and global efforts to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again. The Rana Plaza industrial disaster ...

Strengthening the Social Dialogue Process within a Weak Enabling Environment: The Case of Bangladesh’s RMG Industry examines the state of social dialogue in the backdrop of a weak enabling environment in the RMG sector of Bangladesh during the post-Rana Plaza ...

Post-Rana Plaza Developments in Bangladesh: Towards Building a Responsible Supply Chain in the Apparel Sector provides an objective update about the progress made in terms of the various initiatives undertaken in view of the Rana Plaza tragedy of April 2013. ...

The article titled “South Asia ready for FDI promotion” was published in the second issue of the twelfth volume of the Trade Insight (p. 24-26) by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE).

Third Independent Monitoring Report One Year After the Rana Plaza Tragedy Where Do We Stand? – The Victims, the Sector and the Value Chain The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in association with fourteen civil society think tanks under an ...

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has prepared the first Independent Monitoring Report on the Rana Plaza Tragedy, on behalf of the partnership which has been set up to monitor the delivery status of follow-up activities relating to the tragedy that happened on 24 April 2013.