Bangladesh Inside

Urban life in Bangladesh, particularly in the upper-income areas, is changing fast. Just a few years ago it was not possible to buy daily necessary items like vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, milk, diary products, toiletries etc. in one single shop. But now you can find shops like Agora Superstores at 101 Gulshan Avenue -RM Centre and other similar shops [...]

The revised Rules of Origin (RoO) adopted by the European Commission, effective since 1 January 2011, allows Bangladesh to continue enjoying EU’s Generalised System of Preferences or GSP advantages even for the imported primary materials like fabrics. According to the new rules at least one production process must be completed in Bangladesh to be accepted [...]

The Bangladesh Paradox: Bangladesh has achieved strong growth since the early 1990s. The World Bank estimates that it could join the ranks of middle-income countries (MICs) by 2016 or soon after. This will require increasing and sustaining the GDP growth to 7.5%. However, in order to sustain this high growth, Bangladesh needs to diversify the economy, [...]

Bangladesh’s exports achieved a growth rate of 4.8% for the FY10 (year-to-year). The positive trend continued in the first two months of FY11 with a growth rate of 28.8%. Exports of readymade garments, the most important export item of the country, grew at 1.2% in FY10, which is the slowest growth rate since FY02, while [...]