About the Program

Better Factories Cambodia is an initiative of the ILO and IFC launched in 2001. BFC provides training and assessments to Cambodian factories with the goal of improving working conditions and worker lives.

Working Papers

“Social Compliance as a Development Strategy: Evidence from a Better Factories Cambodia Field Experiment.” Ana Antolin, Laura Babbitt, Drusilla Brown and Howard Wen. Forthcoming.

“Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia.”  Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia and Raymond Robertson. Forthcoming.

“Laws, Costs, Norms, and Learning: Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries.” Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia and Raymond Robertson. 2016. IZA Discussion Paper No. 10025.

“Retrogression in working conditions: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia.”   Better Work Discussion Paper No. 6. ILO, Geneva. April 2012.

“Labor Law Compliance and Human Resources Management Innovation: Better Factories Cambodia.” Raymond Robertson, Rajeev Dehejia, Drusilla Brown, and Debra Ang. Better Work Discussion Paper No. 1. ILO, Geneva. January 2011.

“Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia.” Raymond Robertson, Rajeev Dehejia, and Drusilla Brown. Better Work Discussion Paper No. 4. ILO, Geneva. December 2011.

Publications

“Labor Law Compliance and Human Resource Management Innovation: Better Factories Cambodia.” Ang, Debra, Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia, Raymond Robertson. 2012. Review of Development Economics 16(4), (November): 594-607.

Robertson, R, Brown, D, Dehejia, R. Working conditions and factory survival: Evidence from better factories Cambodia. Rev Dev Econ. 2020; 00: 1– 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rode.12719

Funders

International Labor Office