Corporate Accountability on Labour and Human Rights Case of Financial Stimulus Package Funds Corporate accountability of the apparel sector enterprises of Bangladesh can be scrutinised based on their actions/inactions during COVID-19. The export-oriented apparel sector of Bangladesh has received various ...
Read More »Industrial Safety in the RMG Sector in the Post-Accord-Alliance Era
CPD-FES Publication Industrial Safety in the RMG Sector in the Post-Accord-Alliance Era Is the Institutionalisation Process Slowing Down? Industrial safety in the readymade garments (RMG) sector has been passing a critical phase with a lack of proper coordination, monitoring and ...
Read More »Recovery of the apparels sectors of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka from the COVID-19 crisis
Authors: Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Fahmida Khatun, Tamim Ahmed, Kithmina Hewage and Anjana Pathirana The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major disruption to the global apparel value chain and has delayed its recovery in the medium term. Innovative strategies and tools ...
Read More »How Budget 2017-2018 will impact industry, investment and employment
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 ...
Read More »Making Bangladesh’s garments industry safe and sustainable – Dr Fahmida Khatun
Published in eastasiaforum.org on Thursday, 11 May 2017 Bangladesh’s export-oriented ready-made garments (RMG) industry has made significant contributions to the country’s economic development over the last four decades. But this will come undone unless Bangladesh can make progress on workplace safety compliance and ...
Read More »Dr Moazzem urges RMG entrepreneurs to bring diversity and make high-end products
Additional Director (Research) of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Dr Khondaker Golam Moazzem said entrepreneurs should think about importing gas and foreign investment for large composite factories for woven garments.
Read More »Labour Standards in Cambodian Garments Manufacturing Industry and Comparison with Bangladesh RMG Industry
Author: Ferdous Ahamed, La Trobe University 2011
Read More »One Year After the Rana Plaza Tragedy
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 ...
Read More »100 Days of Rana Plaza Tragedy
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.
Read More »CPD – RMG Study Prepared a Comprehensive Database of Export-oriented RMG Enterprises
CPD-RMG Study has gathered major databases related to export-oriented RMG enterprises from different public and private institutions and prepared a comprehensive database. This database is referred to as ‘Master Dataset’ which will provide the idea of ‘population universe’ of ...
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