Dr Khondaker Golam Moazzem, research director at Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), discusses the challenges that Bangladesh has to overcome on its journey to becoming a middle-income country, in an exclusive interview with Naimul Alam Alvi of The Daily Star.
It is shocking that the wage board sees it fit to approve such a meagre amount for minimum wage for RMG workers, which is a quarter of what they need just to stay above the poverty line.
RMG workers' safety: 856 RMG factories out of a total of 3,752 – nearly 23 percent – are operating outside the purview of the safety inspection bodies that are currently active in Bangladesh.