cost of living crisis 2023

What's stopping RMG workers from getting higher wages?

Unless a holistic approach is taken, the sector will continue to fall short of international standards.

You can’t quell workers’ hunger by opening fire on them

Rather than assuage the workers by announcing a respectable wage, the wage board has essentially fuelled workers’ outrage and made a mockery of the wage negotiation process

How potato prices are manipulated

Manipulation of potato prices is not new in Bangladesh.

Minimum wage for garments workers / Why CPD's proposal is not acceptable

Why should there be two different food standards for two social strata?

The minimum wage question: Owner's profit versus worker's survival

The debate over wage increase has risen at a time when the majority of people in the country are suffering due to skyrocketing commodity prices

Here we go again!

Another round of price hikes of essential items, more misery for ordinary people

The poor deserve a fighting chance

Mess residents’ struggle highlights vulnerability to high food prices

Poor policy and market management have caused price hikes

Why is the government failing to manage the market as they should?

The vulnerable need food support

Why cut back on public food distribution programmes when they are needed the most?

November 20, 2023
November 20, 2023

What's stopping RMG workers from getting higher wages?

Unless a holistic approach is taken, the sector will continue to fall short of international standards.

November 9, 2023
November 9, 2023

You can’t quell workers’ hunger by opening fire on them

Rather than assuage the workers by announcing a respectable wage, the wage board has essentially fuelled workers’ outrage and made a mockery of the wage negotiation process

November 4, 2023
November 4, 2023

How potato prices are manipulated

Manipulation of potato prices is not new in Bangladesh.

October 18, 2023
October 18, 2023

Why CPD's proposal is not acceptable

Why should there be two different food standards for two social strata?

August 5, 2023
August 5, 2023

The minimum wage question: Owner's profit versus worker's survival

The debate over wage increase has risen at a time when the majority of people in the country are suffering due to skyrocketing commodity prices

May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023

Here we go again!

Another round of price hikes of essential items, more misery for ordinary people

April 11, 2023
April 11, 2023

The poor deserve a fighting chance

Mess residents’ struggle highlights vulnerability to high food prices

March 29, 2023
March 29, 2023

Poor policy and market management have caused price hikes

Why is the government failing to manage the market as they should?

January 25, 2023
January 25, 2023

The vulnerable need food support

Why cut back on public food distribution programmes when they are needed the most?

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