All resources: Bangladesh

ILO-CGAP study

Bangladesh - Good and bad practices in microinsurance

This paper was commissioned by the “Good and Bad Practices in Microinsurance” project managed by the ILO’s Social Finance Programme for the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance. The project is jointly funded by SIDA, DFID, GTZ, and the ILO.

Child-free garment sector

Combined evaluation of ILO/IPEC garment sector projects as part of the "Memorandum of Understanding" framework with the Bangladesh Garment...

Project BGD/00/52/USA, BGD/98/ITA, BGD/99/02/NAD

Employment route to poverty reduction in Bangladesh: role of self-employment and wage employment

Issues in Employment and Poverty, Discussion Paper No.17

Occupational safety and health profile for Bangladesh

The profile is an inventory of all the tools and resources available in the country to implement and manage occupational safety and health (OSH) and is designed to provide the data necessary for setting national priorities for action aimed at the...

Migrant workers and human rights: Out-migration from South Asia

This publication is in line with ILO mandate in support of migrant workers. The studies covering five countries in South Asia - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were undertaken from August to November 2003. It presents an overview of...

Impact of Working Time on Children's Health

This working paper looks in detail at the relationship between the intensity of children¿s work (i.e., children¿s weekly working hours) and children¿s health outcomes, making use of household survey data from Bangladesh, Brazil, and Cambodia.

Ground-breaking surveys expose plight of Bangladesh's working children

The first nationwide look at the worst forms of child labour in Bangladesh finds that chldren are working long hours, suffer from bad health, receive minimal pay and overall have bleak futures.

Evaluation report

Combined evaluation of ILO/IPEC garment sector projects as part of the “Memorandum of Understanding” framework with the Bangladesh Garment...

This study is both a final evaluation of each of these three projects and a programme evaluation of the whole ILO/IPEC BGMEA intervention.

Safety and health in shipbreaking: Guidelines for Asian countries and Turkey

These guidelines are the first of their kind to provide assistance to ensure safe work in shipbreaking within the framework of the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. In so doing they provide advice on the transformation of a mainly informal economy...

Bangladesh baseline survey on child workers in battery recharging/recycling sector 2002-2003

Bangladesh Decent Work Statistical Indicators: A Fact-Finding Study

Social finance

Migrant worker remittances and micro-finance in Bangladesh

Assesses the scope and origin of migrant remittances in Bangladesh. It examines the current role of financial institutions in transferring remittance and macro-economic background against which such transfers takes place.

Discussion paper

Employment poverty linkages : Bangladesh

Issues in Employment and Poverty, Discussion Paper No.10

Final evaluation summary

Action against child labour through education and training

Project INT/98/10/NOR

Mid-term evaluation (2003)

Preventing and eliminating the worst forms of child labour in selected formal and informal sectors in Bangladesh

This report is the result of an evaluation to review the project’s approach, strategy and implementation, to assess the extent to which the project objectives were met and the impact on target groups.

Labour market policies, economic growth and poverty reduction : lessons and non-lessons from the comparative experience of East, South-East...

Issues in Employment and Poverty, Discussion Paper No.8

Promotion of employment and Decent Work in Bangladesh: Macroeconomic and labour policy consideration

Draft paper by M. Muqtada

Child trafficking

Rapid assessment on trafficking in children for exploitative employment in Bangladesh

Discussion paper

Bangladesh: bringing poverty focus in rural infrastructure development

Issues in Employment and Poverty, Discussion Paper No.6

South Asia Subregional Programme to Combat Trafficking in Children for Exploitative Employment (TICSA)- Final Project Evaluation (2002)

The ILO-IPEC South-Asian Sub regional Programme to Combat Trafficking in Children for Exploitative Employment (TICSA) was launched in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka in February 2000.