Tasnuma Akter is an economics graduate from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and adjunct faculty at North East University Bangladesh (Sylhet). She can be reached at tasnuma3020@gmail.com.
Employees in Bangladesh’s formal sector retire from a defined post and wait, sometimes in vain, for a pension. Informal employees, who make up more than 80 percent of all workers, usually don’t retire at all.