A total of 21 factories have closed in Narayanganj, leaving hundreds of workers unemployed in the past seven months. As a result, they now face a financial crisis and are protesting for the reopening of the factories and payment of overdue wages. According to sources, the closures have ...
Why Are Rural Wages in India Stuck? Note4Students: India’s economy and agriculture have grown but rural wages haven’t kept up. Rural wages is a leading indicator for…Continue readingWhy Are Rural Wages in India Stuck? 14th February ...
Even the Japanese bran d Visvim, known for its crazy attention to details, also produces high-end, handmade footwear in China.Despite the rising wages an d costs of doing business in China,companies have not walke d away. "Chin a is viewe d by people who make buying decisions as uniqu...
South Korea came bottom of the survey with its women earning just 51 percent of men's wages. The gap is also wide in Pakistan, Nepal, India and Cambodia compared to many other countries, according to the survey. The narrowest gaps, the report found, were in Malaysia and Singapore, at 8...
to get more granular. Workplace mobility, which has been flat in most countries since June or July, has been flat or falling over the last few weeks, with the exception of Brazil and Pakistan, which appear to be trending upwards, uniquely among large gasoline consumers. In the US, estimate...
aDressed in a burka, a Pakistani child, whose family was displaced from Pakistan’s tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, stands outside a mosque, where children hold daily Madrasa, or Islamic school, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan 穿戴在burka,巴基斯坦孩子,...
Ships were once either sunk or taken apart in the countries where they were built, before high costs and environmental restrictions drove ship-breaking efforts elsewhere. India, China, Pakistan and Bangladesh carry out 80 percent of the world's ship-breaking business. Labor activists say this is...
The numbers of migrants trying to cross from the Libya on the coast of north Africa to one of the EU's southern nations is increasing. Europe's impoverished southern nations can't cope. And in the better off nations of northern Europe immigration is a to
*“Howard Beale” (Peter Finch) in Paddy Chayefsky’sNetwork ### As we contemplate the wages of federal foolishness,we might recall that this is the anniversary of the date commemorated in Harold Rosenberg’s powerful lithograph, “Dies Irae (Oct 29).” A graduate of Columbia College (1895...
The trouble with the concept is that it produces intangible products, intangible profits, and intangible wages. Maybe the employees will get to enjoy an intangible sandwich someday. The only way Americans continue living in the style to which they’ve become accustomed is by mortgaging the ...