Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- Contributing Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Overview -- Key Takeaways -- Current Conditions and Challenges -- Drivers and Enablers -- Barriers, Threats, and Challenges -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1...

Vietnam is at a crossroads. It can grow as an export platform for GVCs, specializing in low value-added assembly functions with industrialization occurring in enclaves with little connection to the broader economy or society; or it can leverage the current wave of growth, enabled and accelerated...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Key Messages -- Chapter 1 Bangladesh's Trade Performance -- Introduction -- Bangladesh's Macroeconomic Performance -- Bangladesh's Performance in Goods Trade -- Dependence on Imports -- Exporting...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Assessment of the Shipbuilding Sector in Bangladesh: Capabilities and Future Potential -- Introduction -- Sector Profile -- Market Perspective -- Capabilities and Competitiveness of the...

This is volume 2 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 report's focus is making global value chains (GVCs) more inclusive. To achieve inclusiveness is by overcoming participation constraints for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and facilitation access for Low Income Developing Countries (LIDCs). The underlying assumption is that most firms...

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....