How digital payment systems can boost Bangladesh's push to meet the SDGs
An op-ed by Tuomo Poutiainen, Country Director of ILO Bangladesh and Dan Rees, Director of Better Work published on the World Economic Forum website
- Bangladesh's strongly performing economy is being driven by the ready-made garments (RMG) sector.
- Receiving payment digitally has multiple benefits for the sector's 4 million workers.
- The UN's Better Than Cash Alliance and the newly established ILO Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work are working to remove barriers to digital payment.