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...

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

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...

Who Should Be Accountable for the Bangladesh Building Collapse?

Fatal Fashion Analysis of recent factory fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh: A call to protect and respect garment workers’ lives

The Informal Sector and Informal Employment in Bangladesh

This report contains the findings of the 2010 labour force survey and the related suvey of informal sector enterprises. The surveys were...

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...