LEADER 04339oam 22006015 450 001 9910798988303321 005 20170704084554.0 010 $a1-4648-0925-9 024 7 $a10.1596/978-1-4648-0924-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000922194 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4729854 035 $a(The World Bank)210924 035 $a(US-djbf)210924 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000922194 100 $a20020129d2016 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAttracting Investment in Bangladesh-Sectoral Analyses : $eA Diagnostic Trade Integration Study /$fSanjay Kathuria 210 1$aWashington, D.C. :$cThe World Bank,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (326 pages) 225 1 $aDirections in Development;Directions in Development - Trade 311 $a1-4648-0924-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 330 3 $aThis 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. 410 0$aWorld Bank e-Library. 606 $aCompetitiveness 606 $aIntegration 606 $aInvestment 606 $aOpenness 606 $aTrade 606 $aTrade Facilitation 607 $aBangladesh$xEconomic policy 607 $aBangladesh$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 615 4$aCompetitiveness 615 4$aIntegration 615 4$aInvestment 615 4$aOpenness 615 4$aTrade 615 4$aTrade Facilitation 676 $a338.95492 700 $aKathuria$b Sanjay$01465152 702 $aKathuria$b Sanjay 702 $aMezghenni Malouche$b Mariem 712 02$aBangladesh, 801 0$bDJBF 801 1$bDJBF 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798988303321 996 $aAttracting Investment in Bangladesh-Sectoral Analyses$93691473 997 $aUNINA