[PDF] Export Processing Zones In Bangladesh eBook

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This report provides information regarding the best opportunities for UK exporters doing business in Bangladesh.

Author : Sanjay Kathuria
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464809259

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This is volume 3 of a three-volume publication on Bangladesh’s trade prospects. Bangladesh’s ambition is to build on its very solid growth and poverty reduction achievements, and accelerate growth to become a middle income country by 2021, and share prosperity more widely amongst its citizens. This includes one of its greatest development challenges: to provide gainful employment to the over 2 million people that will join the labor force each year over the next decade. Moreover, only 54.1 million of its 94 million working age people are employed. Bangladesh needs to use its labor endowment even more intensively to increase growth and, in turn, to absorb the incoming labor. The Diagnostic Trade Integration Study identifies the following actions centered around four pillars to sustain and accelerate export growth: (1) breaking into new markets through a) better trade logistics to reduce delivery lags ; as world markets become more competitive and newer products demand shorter lead times, to generate new sources of competitiveness and thereby enable market diversification; and b) better exploitation of regional trading opportunities in nearby growing and dynamic markets, especially East and South Asia; (2) breaking into new products through a) more neutral and rational trade policy and taxation and bonded warehouse schemes; b) concerted efforts to spur domestic investment and attract foreign direct investment, to contribute to export promotion and diversification, including by easing the energy and land constraints; and c) strategic development and promotion of services trade; (3) improving worker and consumer welfare by a) improving skills and literacy; b) implementing labor and work safety guidelines; and c) making safety nets more effective in dealing with trade shocks; and (4) building a supportive environment, including a) sustaining sound macroeconomic fundamentals; and b) strengthening the institutional capacity for strategic policy making aimed at the objective of international competitiveness to help bring focus and coherence to the government’s reform efforts. This third volume provides in-depth analysis of eight different manufacturing and services sectors of the Bangladeshi economy, which help to illustrate the thematic analysis of volume 2 and ground it in sector experiences. Besides pointing to cross-cutting themes, the analysis also highlights some specific issues and actions that could help relieve constraints to faster export growth in these sectors.

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File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2018
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The government recognizes that inadequate basic infrastructure and a severe shortage of accessible land discourages greenfield investments and industrial development. Bangladesh has one of the world's most cost competitive, sizeable supply of labor, ideal for labor-intensive production in sectors such as garments, footwear, leather products and toys. However, despite large development success fueled by RMG, microfinance, and remittances, three out of five Bangladeshi workers still find themselves in vulnerable employment. The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority Act of 1980 was aimed to boost industrialization and job creation through the promotion of trade and investment and it has had some success. The Act led to the establishment of the semi-autonomous Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA), which leases serviced land to industrial tenants in eight export processing zones (EPZs) across the country, primarily focused on the garment sector. The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority Act and the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Act-both of 2010-created two more agencies like BEPZA and these three agencies have overlapping mandates. The two new acts led to the creation of two new semi-autonomous agencies- the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority (BHTPA)-tasked to oversee the expansion of economic zones (EZs) and hi-tech parks (HTPs) in the country. Bangladesh's development agenda using special economic zones is affected by internal andexternal challenges that the government will need to address. These include: Legal and regulatory mandates, Governance and technical capacity, Safeguards management and Connections to the national investment climate.

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File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2018
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The government recognizes that inadequate basic infrastructure and a severe shortage of accessible land discourages greenfield investments and industrial development.Bangladesh has one of the world's most cost competitive, sizeable supply of labor, ideal for labor-intensive production in sectors such as garments, footwear, leather products and toys. However, despite large development success fueled by RMG, microfinance, and remittances, three out of five Bangladeshi workers still find themselves in vulnerable employment.The Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority Act of 1980 was aimed to boost industrialization and job creation through the promotion of trade and investment and it has had some success.The Act led to the establishment of the semi-autonomous Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA), which leases serviced land to industrial tenants in eight export processing zones (EPZs) across the country, primarily focused on the garment sector.The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority Act and the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Act--both of 2010--created two more agencies like BEPZA and these three agencies have overlapping mandates. The two new acts led to the creation of two new semi-autonomous agencies-- the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority (BHTPA)--tasked to oversee the expansion of economic zones (EZs) and hi-tech parks (HTPs) in the country.Bangladesh's development agenda using special economic zones is affected by internal andexternal challenges that the government will need to address.These include: Legal and regulatory mandates, Governance and technical capacity, Safeguards management and Connections to the national investment climate.