Rehabilitation challenges of injured garment factory workers

The sequence of garment factory fires and building collapses provoked widespread calls domestically and internationally to improve workplace health and safety conditions in Bangladesh which is a key destination country among the Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) in the world where Western companies outsourced garments production to profit from...

Covid-19 and international trade: The underlying trends

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused the global economy its worst contraction in almost a century. Current forecasts portray a very gloomy picture for 2020 with a 13 to 32 per cent decline in merchandise trade, a 30-40 per cent fall in foreign direct investment (FDI) along with a significant reduction...