Performance of EPZ RMG Enterprises: Are They Still Better Compared to Non-EPZ Enterprises?
Moazzem, Khondaker Golam; Arfanuzzaman, Md; Halim, Faizan Bin; Reza, Minhaz M; Azim, Syeda Samiha | August 2018
Abstract
For nearly four decades, export processing zones (EPZs) have made significant contribution in the Bangladesh economy in terms of accelerating production and investment, generating employment opportunities and ensuring the inward flow of foreign exchange. The enclave nature of EPZs separated from the non-EPZ areas or Domestic Tariff Areas, under fiscal barriers, has been promoted with the expectation of more investment from abroad which is better in the domain of technology use, productivity, workplace safety, and workers’ wages and livelihood issues. Various studies have found that enterprises in EPZs are better compared to that of the non-EPZ areas in economic and social upgrading (World Bank, 2010; Gibbon, 2008; Zeng, 2015). With significant upgrading in the post-Rana Plaza period particularly in non-EPZ enterprises of the readymade garments (RMG) sector, it was expected that the performance gap between EPZ and non-EPZ enterprises would decrease. This policy brief examines the nature and extent of di fferences in the relative performance of EPZ and non-EPZ enterprises in the post-Rana Plaza period. Based on the data collected from the sample survey of 226 randomly selected non-EPZ area enterprises and 14 EPZ enterprises, the study undertakes a comparative assessment of these two types of enterprises of the RMG sector. It is important to note that sample EPZ enterprises well represent the national population of RMG enterprises located in the EPZ areas. The key issues highlighted in this Brief include the comparative performance of enterprises of EPZs and non-EPZ areas with respect to ownership, management, technology, productivity and worker-related issues.
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Moazzem, Khondaker Golam; Arfanuzzaman, Md; Halim, Faizan Bin; Reza, Minhaz M; Azim, Syeda Samiha. 2018. Performance of EPZ RMG Enterprises: Are They Still Better Compared to Non-EPZ Enterprises?. © Centre for Policy Dialogue. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8887.Keywords
Textile Industry
Rayon Industry
Cotton Industry
Clothing Industry
Trade
Merchandise Trade
Commerce and Industry
Intra-Industry Trade
Large Scale Industry
Labor
Technical Evaluation
Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
Weaving
Textiles
Textile Workers
Wool Industry
Silk Industry
Small Scale Industry
Medium Scale Industry
Local Industry
Export Oriented Industries
Industrialization
Industrial Economics
Industrial Development
Industrial Policy
Technology assessment
Technological institutes
Employment
Information Media
Mass Media
Export Oriented Industries
Electronics
Computers
Telecommunications Industry
Manufacturing Industries
Microprocessors
Electronic Equipment
Communication Industry
Project impact
Development projects
Program management
Performance appraisal
Project appraisal
Work clothes industry
Women's clothing industry
Children's clothing industry
Uniforms industry
Microelectronics industry
Electronic industries
Digital electronics
Microelectronics
Capital market
Developing countries
Market share
Labor
Technology transfer
Cumulative effects assessment
Job analysis
Task analysis
Cumulative effects assessment
Grievance procedures
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
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