September 26, 2024
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Harnessing Digital Payments to Serve Domestic and International Clients
Author: Munzeleen Sarwar It is challenging to overstate the importance of women’s entrepreneurial activity and its contribution to a nation’s economic growth. Entrepreneurship significantly accelerates economic growth by creating new products and services that in turn create employment opportunities. While […]
August 13, 2024
A New Beginning with True and Timely Data: Reform, Reverse, Rebuild Bangladesh’s Future!
Bangladesh has embarked on a new journey. The aspiration is to make Bangladesh 2.0 based upon principles of democracy, transparency, accountability and equity. One of our priorities is to develop an ecosystem of policy-making with evidence, comprising both qualitative and […]
June 9, 2024
Bangladesh Women Platform Workers: An Anthology
The Bangladesh section of the report identifies that platforms could reduce the precarities of women domestic workers by formalizing the scope of work and establishing basic workplace treatment standards, but choose not to do so. In illuminating the double-edged sword […]
January 24, 2024
Fairwork Bangladesh Ratings 2023: Is it Time for a Regulatory Framework?
The third Fairwork Bangladesh report identifies reasonable improvements in platforms’ responsiveness towards workers’ needs and demands since our previous report of 2022. This year, 11 platforms were reviewed and scored. The league table shows an overall improvement in Fairwork scores […]
November 16, 2023
Women in the Platform Economy: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges
Author: Jinat Jahan Khan During the last decade, the global workforce has undergone a significant and profound transformation. One of the most prominent transformations was the emergence of different digital labour platforms (ILO, 2018). Through these platforms, people are able […]
October 11, 2023
Assessment of Progress of Bangladesh Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Author: Jinat Jahan Khan Bangladesh has accomplished a remarkable development in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the SDG Index 2023, the country has achieved the 101st position out of 166 countries on the sustainable development report. It has achieved […]