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    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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    Moazzem, Khondaker Golam
    Arfanuzzaman, Md
    Halim, Faizan Bin
    Reza, Minhaz M
    Azim, Syeda Samiha
    Theme
    Industry
    Evaluation

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