The July uprising of 2024 paved the way for reimagining Bangladesh’s economic future.
Why can’t Bangladesh have its own global apparel brand?
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers immense potential to transform Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector
Competitive market pressures, fluctuations in raw material prices responsible for the decline
Explore social compliance audits in Bangladesh’s RMG sector and their impact on workers.
Bangladesh has emerged as an economic success story, primarily through its booming ready-made garments (RMG) sector.
Beximco's problems are evidence of a number of ongoing problems in the garment industry.
The USA's overall apparel imports from the world also fell by 0.33 percent to $67.04 billion during the January-October period, the data showed. China ranked first in apparel shipments to the USA, with Vietnam in second place
Bangladesh has a class problem which deters from effective conversations about the many barriers to operational unionisation in the garment industry.
They had come to Dhaka for jobs so they could get out of poverty and help their families. But the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse not only demolished their hopes but also pushed them into endless misery.
Bangladesh government should urgently remove legal and practical obstacles to unionization in garment industries, Human Rights Watch says.
Some 58 percent survivors of deadly Rana Plaza collapse incident are still traumatised and 48 percent of them remain unemployed even after three years of the tragedy, says a survey report of ActionAid.
Banlgadesh’s growth for this fiscal will improve marginaly and stand at 6.7 percent driven by apparel export and domestic consumption, Asian Development Bank forecasts.
A sector as large and as booming as RMG, with the majority of its 4.2 million workers being young women between 18 and 35...
The United States has appreciated Bangladesh’s progress on sustainability compact and GSP plan of action, a press release of Bangladesh embassy in Washington DC said.
Bangladesh and the United States will hold the second round of Ticfa meeting in Washington on Monday in which Bangladesh will highlight the progress in terms of RMG sector reforms with a high hope to get back GSP benefit in the US market.
What will kill RMG in Bangladesh? Trans-Pacific Partnership or security fears? It may certainly be the second one and not the first. To begin with, the full text of the TPP is not yet available.
Bangladesh is set to join Gujarat’s textile park bandwagon, reports Times of India.
Bangladesh is diligently working with the United States to root out violent extremism, says Bangladesh Ambassador to the US Mohammad Ziauddin.
