Economic Reforms and Productive Capacity Realisation in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis.

Using firm-level data from the Bangladesh food manufacturing sector, this paper examines the impact of economic reform on productive capacity realization in the 1980s. The results suggest that, although improvement occurred in the realization of productive capacities after the implementation of economic reforms, there is, however, room for significant further improvement in increasing output by realizing the unrealized capacity. Copyright 1997 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd