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The 10th Anniversary of the Bangladesh Accord: Facing the Impact of Governance Gap on Employment Relations
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Abstract
The Bangladesh Agreement was signed in 2013. This article revisits the Bangladesh Accord on its tenth anniversary and explores how lessons from the Bangladesh Accord reveal the profound impact of governance gaps on contemporary employment relations. Today, with the globalization of economic activities and the further intensification of governance gaps, it is very meaningful to explore the impact of governance gaps on employment relations. This article explores how governance gaps impact employment relations by examining the implementation and outcomes of the Bangladesh Accord. and further considers the limitations of the impact of private governance on transnational employment relationships. Ultimately, this article believes that the impact of governance gaps on employment relations is powerful and inevitable, and even effective private governance appears to be so vulnerable in the face of governance gaps.
Keywords
employment relationship, Bangladesh accord, governance gap, private management
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Li,S. (2024). The 10th Anniversary of the Bangladesh Accord: Facing the Impact of Governance Gap on Employment Relations. Journal of Applied Economics and Policy Studies,3,1-5.
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