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The Rise of Special Economic Zones in Bangladesh

World Bank Group - 2018

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...

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Modernizing Tariff Policy

World Bank Group - 2018

Tariff modernization will help Bangladesh diversify its export basket. Tariff modernization is at the crux of input competitiveness for efficient manufacturing given that more than 90 percent of the raw material for exportable goods are imported in Bangladesh and the other export incentives like...

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Improving Regulatory Service Delivery

World Bank Group - 2018

Bangladesh has set up an ambitious target of attaining middle-income status by 2021. To achieve this objective, the economy needs to grow at a sustained rate of 7.5-8 percent annually and this would in turn require an increase in private investment to at least 26.6 percent of GDP from 22 percent...

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Enabling Export Diversification

World Bank Group - 2018

Bangladesh's export growth has been remarkable. Bangladesh aims to generate USD 54.1 billion in export earnings by FY2020, a significant increase over the USD 35 billion earned in FY2015-16. The leading sector, textiles and apparels, usually referred to as ready-made garments (RMG), has created...

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Export Diversification through Bonded Warehouse Reforms

World Bank Group - 2018

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Unpredictable Regulatory Practices

World Bank Group - 2018

The current regulatory environment in Bangladesh discourages the entry of innovative businesses.Entrepreneurs face a myriad of regulatory barriers including an absence of laws and regulations that clarify the rules of the game for new activities (regulatory gaps), and conflicting definitions and...

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Enhancing FDI through Investment Policy Reform

World Bank Group - 2018

The average annual FDI inflow in Bangladesh is significantly lower than comparable economies.Over the past decade (2007 to 2017), inflows have averaged at 0.9 percent of GDP in Bangladeshcompared with 3.0 percent in China, 5.5 percent in Ethiopia, 2.6 percent in The Philippines, 6.6 percent in...

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Bangladesh : Improving the Administration of Civil Service Pensions

World Bank Group - 2018

As part of a deepening engagement with the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) on the broader pensions agenda, this note analyzes and makes recommendations concerning the administration of civil service pensions. The national social security strategy (NSSS), was launched in 2015 and presented a...

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Kyrgyz Republic : Developing Agri-Food Value Chains

World Bank Group - 2018

The prevalence of small farmers and small-scale agri-food processors creates unique challenges for agri-food value-chain development in Kyrgyzstan. That is, the Kyrgyz farm structure itself, with its dominance of small farmers, is one of the main constraints for the effective functioning of...

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Selected Policy Notes for Incoming Administration of Angola

World Bank Group - 2018

challenges and has started to carry-out much needed adjustment.The objective of these Angola Policy Notes, written from the … perspective of the World Bank, are to support the government in its reform agenda. The 15 concise policy notes range from … policy notes reflect the World Bank's past and current engagement in Angola in several sectors, and provide a short …

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