Bangladesh

Open Letter to European Union Policymakers

As the world reels from the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, where supply chains and workers’ livelihoods were brought to a grinding...

The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Bengali)

Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey...

The Costs of Insecurity: Domestic Workers’ Access to Social Protection and Services in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Domestic workers in Bangladesh carry the heavy cost of inadequate investment in the provision of social protection and services and survey...

Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: A Statistical Profile

In Bangladesh, there were about 3.2 million non-agricultural and 7.4 million agricultural home-based workers, according to the 2016/17 Labour...

Five Blogs from 2017 that Take on Big Ideas for Informal Workers

As a global research-policy-action network, WIEGO’s team members are in a unique position to lead debates and contribute grounded new ideas...

The Cost for Women Workers of Precarious Employment in Bangladesh

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

Occupational Injury in Rural Bangladesh: Data Gathering Using Household Survey

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Paid Work, Women’s Empowerment and Inclusive Growth: Transforming the Structures of Constraint

This research paper examines the extent to which the structure of economic opportunities generated by a country’s growth strategies...

‘Voice’ as a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment: Reflections on the Indian Experience