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 […]