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...

Occupational Injury in Rural Bangladesh: Data Gathering Using Household Survey

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An Economic Analysis of a Public-Private-Community Partnership: The Case of Solid Waste Management in Dhaka, BangladeshWorld Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development

This paper assesses the economic efficiency of a public-private community partnership in urban solid waste management in Dhaka City. Based...

Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: Statistics and Trends

This brief presents estimates of home-based workers in Bangladesh based on two rounds of labour force surveys (nationally representative...

Housing and Urban Service Needs of Home-Based Workers: Findings From a Seven-Country Study

This policy brief considers linkages between urban infrastructure and livelihood issues for home-based workers. It is based on a series of...

One Step Forward or More Window Dressing? A Legal Analysis of Recent CSR Initiatives in the Garment Industry in BangladeshInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Abstract: The Bangladesh ready-made garment industry has recently been the scene of a number of major accidents, with the collapse of the...

Extending Livelihood Opportunities and Social Protection to Empower Poor Urban Informal Workers in Asia