Artificial intelligence (AI) offers immense potential to transform Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector
Bangladesh's economy faces instability, inflation, and political unrest hindering growth.
The interim government needs to quickly set an agenda that reaffirms its commitment to upholding women's rights.
To maintain its position as a global leader in the garment industry, Bangladesh must prioritise unity and stability.
The RMG industry has provided lakhs of women, with their first formal employment opportunities.
The workers protesting for a minimum wage of Tk 25,000, but those in power are concocting ways to thwart this mission.
Sami Alam, an aspiring fashion designer, decided to use his penchant for fashion to tell the story of these workers and highlight their unacknowledged labour. He designed the thought-provoking collection “Blood, Sweat and Tears” for his Master's graduation at International Fashion Academy (IFA) in Paris, France.
The government will continue to provide incentives to 12 sectors as an alternative to direct cash support on export receipts with a view to helping exporters tackle potential challenges in the post-LDC era, a top official said yesterday.
Readymade garment manufacturer A Plus Sweater Ltd had sent an RMG consignment to Chattogram Port from its Gazipur factory on eight covered vans on October 29 last year for shipment to Brazil.
According to a recent report by McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, Bangladesh is slated to remain the top sourcing nation for global retail of readymade garments (RMG) for the next five years.
The Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 signed by US President Barack Obama on June 29, 2015, brings afresh the concerns and frustrations of Bangladesh.
GSP is always riddled with the subjectivity of the benefit granting countries. Indeed, trade analysts would recognise that this element of subjectivity is one of the fundamental problems with the GSP regimes.
Bangladesh made unprecedented progress in labour and safety standards over the last two years, which had raised hopes for the country of regaining trade benefits from the United States.
Readymade garment manufacturers oppose the government’s plan to hike tax upon them and urged for its withdrawal for the “sake of the industry”.
Though there are many views on 'inclusive growth', the key consensus is that inclusive growth is a growth process which reduces poverty, inequality and social exclusion and promotes 'decent' jobs and economic and social cohesion.
THE history and development of trade unions in the garment sector is different from other industrial sectors of Bangladesh.
TWO years ago, the Rana Plaza building collapsed, crushing workers and drawing the world's attention to the readymade garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh.
