Presenting the study titled 'Wage earnings of manufacturing workers in Bangladesh: Do trade unions matter?', BIDS Research Director Mahmudul Hasan said workers in the RMG sector earn 19%-22% higher ...

In a rapidly changing world of work marked by technological disruption, gig-economy expansion, and growing inequality, the role of trade unions is again under global scrutiny. To shed light on why ...

MUMBAI, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Ten large Indian trade unions condemned the government's rollout on Friday of new labour codes, the biggest such overhaul in decades, as a "deceptive fraud" against workers.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The trade war might be coming to a strange end. Last week, the Supreme Court heard two cases questioning the legal underpinnings of Donald Trump’s tariff regime.

REBALANCING TRADE WITH CHINA: This week in the Republic of Korea, President Donald J. Trump reached a trade and economic deal with President Xi Jinping of China—a massive victory that safeguards U.S.

President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have walked back from the ledge—again. But even as the world’s two superpowers deescalate a trade fight that had threatened to destabilize the global ...

15 May 2025 — The global economy is at a precarious juncture, marked by heightened trade tensions and elevated policy uncertainty, according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects as of ...

SIX MONTHS ago, as President Donald Trump announced a trade war of unprecedented ferocity, firms and investors braced for a slump. Movements in financial markets pointed to a recession. American ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -International finance chiefs are returning home with a measure of relief over the surprising resilience of the global economy to the cascade of policy shocks through the first ...

US–China rivalry is reshaping global and regional trade, pressuring ASEAN countries with transshipment rules that risk fragmenting supply chains and undermining regional integration. ASEAN countries’ ...

Trade associations representing various industries issued a letter Tuesday expressing “serious concerns” about a proposed merger between major rail companies Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific. “We ...

MINSK, 22 August (BelTA) - Belarus and Russia are developing a draft economic model for the Union State, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian State Concern for Oil and Chemistry ...