GARMENT FACTORY TRAGEDY IN BANGLADESH Bangladesh‚ the world’s second largest garment exporter‚ earns more than 10 per cent of its GDP from readymade garment factories. The country has about 4‚500 factories‚ employing around 4million people. But worker in garment work at a very law price and in a very insecure condition taking the risk of life. Moreover this readymade garment sector has become a death trap for the workers in Bangladesh. Building collapse and fire are very frequent incident in this
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Chapter-1 1.0: Introduction The phenomenal growth of the garment industry in Bangladesh is widely known‚ due in no small part to the popular book by Easterly (2002) and an earlier paper by Rhee (1990). The industry now ranks among the largest garment exporters in the world. It accounts for 75 percent of the country’s export earnings and 25 percent of GDP and provides ample job opportunities for females. The garment industry started from scratch three decades ago. Since its exports were
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pessimistic view about the developmental prospect of Bangladesh. Many thought that the country would remain permanently locked in a ‘below poverty level equilibrium trap’. Although there is little room for complacency Bangladesh has come a long way from there. About two-fifths of the economy is now connected with the global economy through exports‚ imports‚ factor and commodity markets; the degree of openness of the economy currently stands at 40%. Bangladesh can now rightfully claim that she has graduated
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and other providers as well as all nursing departments‚ ancillary department’s and all relevant nonclinical staff to propose the funding of a department‚ staffed by experienced registered nurses‚ who will be the key players responsible of bridging the gap between hospital and community providing discharge instructions‚ education and will follow the patient in the weeks coming after they leave the hospital ensuring access to medications and appropriate follow ups. The purpose of this program is to
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of a garment worker in Bangladesh This world is very diverse. This miscellaneous world is created by creator’s own wish. He has also created trees and plants‚ animals and birds‚ hills and mountains‚ rivers and canals‚ the sun and the moon‚ stars and the planets‚ the best of creation human beings and others. He has also created rich and poor people‚ people of higher and lower class. Engineers‚ doctors‚ ministers etc. are rich and higher class people. But the rickshaw pullers‚ farmers‚ garment workers
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The unrest condition of RMG sector in Bangladesh Introduction: Labor-force is an important input in industrial production and this is truer in garment industry of Bangladesh. Mechanization and automation have not diminished the role of human element in industrial establishments. In fact‚ the role of workforce has become highly critical in garment industry. Nor have the economic reforms belittled the significance of labor.Human resource is taken to be an important factor to increase productivity
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Chapter One 1. Origin of The Report The report title “Export performance of readymade garments sector of Bangladesh” has been prepared as a practical fulfillment of MBA Degree in Daffodil International University. Student are required to undertake and internship program. For this purpose each of there is attached with or organization. During the internship a student has to prepare a report on the organization where he is assigned. He has also to undertake an were of investigation o the organization
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Introduction: The readymade garment (RMG) sector has been playing an important role in the overall economic development of Bangladesh. For a long time developing countries have strived for a development paradigm that would achieve high economic growth leading to employment generation and poverty alleviation. The RMG industry of Bangladesh started its modest journey in late 1970s and within three decades‚ it has been a flourishing sector. In the 1950s‚ developing economies like Hong Kong‚ Taiwan
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Humanism: Bridging the Gap between the Dark Ages and the Renaissance Nicholas DiOrio History 101B TA: Abby Cliff November 16‚ 2012 It is commonly known in the world of history that the Middle Ages were a time of very slow‚ almost nonexistent growth‚ while the Renaissance is known for its divinity and rapid spread of the arts‚ literatures‚ and culture‚ as well as many other aspects of life during this time period. Voltaire even believed the Renaissance to be one of the four golden ages of
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export. By the year 1983‚ Ready-Made-Garment (RMG) emerged to be a non-traditional export oriented sector most promising in the socioeconomic context of the country. By that time‚ those entrepreneurs felt a necessity of sectoral trade body‚ non-government in nature‚ free from traditional bureaucracy‚ to help the RMG sector and to boost up the foreign exchange earnings of the country urgently needed at that time. Responding to that necessity‚ 19 (Nineteen) RMG manufacturers and exporters joined together
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