Toward New Sources of Competitiveness in Bangladesh: Key Insights of the Diagnostic Trade Integration Study

by Mariem Mezghenni Malouche and Sanjay Kathuria

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464806470
• ISBN13: 9781464806476
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"