# In an op-ed, Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz offers solutions to increase worker safety in Bangladesh factories

1 Faculty News December 8, 2015 ![Council on Foreign Relations blog logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030870.jpg?itok=byjB3w4b)>

Excerpt from [Council on Foreign Relations blog](http://blogs.cfr.org/development-channel/2015/12/08/a-tipping-point-in-bangladesh/) -- "No single actor can underwrite the significant costs of upgrading Bangladesh’s garment sector. Local and international participants should share the costs. Detroit provides a useful model, in which the public-private Blight Removal Taskforce successfully surveyed the city’s problem, developed a blueprint for addressing it, and raised public and private funds to meet the $800 million price tag of clearing blighted structures."

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