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To facilitate evidence-based policy discourse on Bangladesh’s exports and support the private sector’s proactive participation in it, the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute is implementing the BEI Trade and Investment Project. The analyses provided, recommendations prepared, and advocacy activities undertaken as part of this initiative aim to contribute to raising awareness of the concerned stakeholders in promoting policy mechanisms with the objective of boosting export growth and diversification.

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Revitalising Bangladesh’s Exports

 

Bangladesh is often considered as an export success story. Since 1990 while world exports grew at a compound annual average rate of 5.8 per cent, Bangladesh managed to grow twice as fast. While so many countries failed to move their export production away from primary commodities to manufacturing, Bangladesh.....

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Bangladesh’s Graduation from the Group of LDCs: Issues for the Private Sector

Defying overwhelming odds, Bangladesh has continued to demonstrate impressive socio-economic progress. The impending graduation from least developed country (LDC) status is a global acknowledgement of the country’s major developmental transition.....

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Towards A Strengthened Bangladesh-U.S. Economic Cooperation

 

While the United States has been an indispensable trade and development partner for Bangladesh, there exist enormous opportunities for strengthening economic cooperation between the two countries. This paper argues that the scope for reinvigorated bilateral cooperation arises as the Bangladesh.....

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Promoting Bangladesh’s Exports to India

 

India is the fastest growing country amongst the world’s largest economies and is set to become the third largest economy soon after 2030, only behind China and the United States. Bangladesh and India enjoy strong bilateral economic and trade relationship, which in recent times has grown from strength to strength. Trade.....

Bangladesh-China Trade and Economic Cooperation: Issues and Perspectives

China has emerged as a global economic superpower having achieved high economic growth sustained for a very long period and in the process becoming the world’s largest exporter of and second biggest market of merchandised goods. For suppliers from across global economies, it presents.....

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Bangladesh’s Pharmaceutical Exports Trends, Market Prospects and Policy Issues

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Leather and Leather Goods Exports from Bangladesh

 

When it comes to export expansion while promoting export diversification, the sector that holds a great promise is leather and leather goods, the second largest export sector for Bangladesh. There was a policy target of achieving $5 billion in export receipts from the sector by 2021. However, this now seems to be a daunting.....

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Boosting Plastic Exports from Bangladesh

 

The plastic industry is one of the most prominent emerging manufacturing sectors in Bangladesh. Buoyed by strong domestic demand, it has experienced rapid growth in recent times. The sector is widely perceived to have huge export potential although its actual performance has so far fallen far short.....

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Unleashing the Export Potential of Bangladesh’s Furniture Industry

 

Exports of furniture have shown strong dynamism in recent years. The furniture industry is considered having high export and diversification potential. However, after more than 20 years since the country initiated commercial exporting of furniture items, the sector has achieved far less than its export potential. In a world.....

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Tapping into Services Exports: Issues and Policy Options

Estimated at around US$ 160 billion in 2018-19, the services sector comprises just over 51 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP). The sector employs 23.7 million people which is 39 per cent of the national employment......

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Reviving Exports of Jute Products from Bangladesh

Traditionally labelled as ‘golden fibre’, jute used to be the most important source of foreign exchange for Bangladesh until the mid-1980s. Despite being the second-largest (after India) jute producer in the world, Bangladesh is the most dominant exporter of jute fibre and manufactured products (63 per cent of global exports in 2018)......

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Bangladesh and the WTO’s 11th Ministerial Conference

 

The World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of trade negotiations, at 18 years, is the longest running round in the history of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and WTO negotiations. There have been serious disagreements amongst WTO members on several issues with no end in sight for the impasse. While.....

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