...POTENTIALITY OF FDI INFLOW IN BANGLADESH 1. INTRODUCTION Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered as one of the crucial ingredients for fostering economic development of a developing country. Countries that are lagging behind to attract FDI are formulating and implementing new policies for attracting more investment. Even compared to other South Asian countries, FDI inflow to Bangladesh has traditionally been lower. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is investment directly into production in a country by a company located in another country, either by buying a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country. Foreign direct investment is done for many reasons including to take advantage of cheaper wages in the country, special investment privileges such as tax exemptions offered by the country as an incentive to gain tariff-free access to the markets of the country or the region. Foreign direct investment is in contrast to portfolio investment which is a passive investment in the securities of another country such as stocks and bonds. 2. TYPES OF FDI As a part of the national accounts of a country FDI refers to the net inflows of investment. There are two types of FDI: inward foreign direct investment and outward foreign direct investment, resulting in a net FDI inflow (positive or negative). Inward FDI occurs when foreign capital is invested in local resources. The factors propelling the growth of inward FDI include...
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...Major Determinants and Hindrances of FDI inflow in Bangladesh: Perceptions and Experiences of Foreign Investors and Policy Makers An assignment on Major Determinants and Hindrances of FDI inflow in Bangladesh: Perceptions and Experiences of Foreign Investors and Policy Makers Submitted To: S. M. Zahidur Rahman Associate Professor Submitted By: Tasnuba Nowrin ID-090316 Fatema Khatun ID- 090349 KHULNA UNIVERSITY Business Administration Discipline BBA Program 4th Year, 1st Term Course Title: Financial Management and Institution Course No: FIN-4203 September 10, 2012 Summary on previous article Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered as a crucial component for economic development of a developing country. Countries that are lagging behind to attract FDI are now formulating and implementing new policies for attracting more investment. The determinants which play as a driving force for attracting FDI are geographical location, cheap labour cost, and government attitude towards liberalization of the existing laws of the host country, skilled manpower, incentives for investors, and exemption of taxes etc. According to Bangladesh Board of Investment Handbook (2007) Bangladesh offers an attractive investment climate compared to other South Asian Economies. But among the emerging economies India and China are the desired choice for investment (Baskaran and Muchie, 2008). FDI is considered as an important tool for economic development in a developing country. If...
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...Bangladesh Economic Update Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) February 2012 Bangladesh Economic Update Volume 3, No. 2, February 2012 Acknowledgement: Bangladesh Economic Update is an output of the Economic Policy Unit of the Unnayan Onneshan, a multidisciplinary research centre based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The report is prepared by a team, under the guidance of Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir and Palash Kanti Das. The team comprises Nibedita Roy and A. Z. M. Saleh. © Copyright: Unnayan Onneshan-The Innovators The content of this publication may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes with proper citation (please send output to the address mentioned below). Any other form of reproduction, storage in a retrieval system or transmission by any means for commercial purposes, requires permission from the Unnayan Onneshan-The Innovators. For orders and request please contact: Unnayan Onneshan - The Innovators 16/2, Indira Road, Farmgate Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh Tell: + (880-2) 8158274, 9110636 Fax: + (880-2) 8159135 E-mail: info@unnayan.org Web: www.unnayan.org Bangladesh Economic Update, February 2012 2|P a g e Bangladesh Economic Update Vol. 3, No. 2, February 2012 Economic Policy Unit Unnayan Onneshan 1. INTRODUCTION The current issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update focuses on the magnitude, dynamics, sectoral distribution, and countrywise sources of FDI inflow in the country. The flow of foreign direct investment is of utmost importance in the current backdrop of overall...
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...Answer: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been an important part of the economic transition, business liberalization and macro-economic growth story in Bangladesh over the last decade. Since the last decade, there has been a considerable change in global flows of trade and finance including a surge in FDI. Despite being a recent phenomenon, several underlying factors have contributed to increasing the FDI inflow in Bangladesh, such as trade and exchange liberalization, current account convertibility, emphasis on private sector led development, liberalization of the investment regime, opening up of infrastructure and services to the private sector-both domestic and foreign, and above all the interest of foreign investors in energy and telecommunication sector. It is argued that more open trade policies are associated with the presence of foreign firms and economy-wide technological and productivity gains in developing countries like Bangladesh. There also exists evidence of a strong positive correlation between increasing share of FDI in GDP and diversification to high-technology exports in countries that have open trade regimes. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has played a key role in the modernization of the Bangladesh economy for the last 15 years. Bangladesh received FDI of $1.13 billion last year compared to $910 million in 2010. This increase of about 25% is higher than the average 23% worldwide growth of FDI. According to the 2012 World Investment Report (WIR) of the...
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...Foreign Direct Investment: Impact on Sectoral Growth in Bangladesh Introduction Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a potent weapon of developing the Bangladesh economy and can play an important role in achieving the country’s socio-economic objectives including poverty reduction goals. In a capital-poor country like Bangladesh, FDI can emerge as a significant vehicle to build up physical capital, create employment opportunities, develop productive capacity, enhance skills of local labor through transfer of technology and managerial know-how, and help integrate the domestic economy with the global economy. This policy note provides an assessment of the current situation of FDI in Bangladesh and examines its impact on the country’s balance of payments. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is capital provided by a foreign direct investor, either directly or through other related enterprises, where the foreign investor is directly involved in the management of the enterprise. Until the1980s, most developing countries viewed FDI with great weariness. In recent years, however FDI restrictions have been significantly reduced. Most countries offer incentives to attract FDI, such as tax concessions, tax holidays, accelerated depreciation on plants and machinery, export subsidies and import entitlements etc. As a developing country, Bangladesh needs FDI for its ongoing development process. Since independence, Bangladesh is trying to be a suitable location for FDI. Special zones have...
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...Foreign direct investment And Economic Growth in Bangladesh Internship program at Brac Bank Ltd. Internship Report On “Foreign direct investment And Economic Growth in Bangladesh and Internship program at Brac Bank Ltd.” The Internship report is submitted to the Department of Finance, University of Dhaka for the partial fulfillment of the requirement of BBA program. Submitted to: Department of Finance University of Dhaka Supervised by: Mohammad Jahangir Alam Chowdhury Professor Department of Finance University of Dhaka Submitted by: Zarin Tasnim ID: 17-009 Section: A Department of Finance University of Dhaka Signature of the Supervisor Date of Submission: 7th May, 2015 Letter of Transmittal 7th May, 2015 Mohammad Jahangir Alam Chowdhury Professor Department of Finance University of Dhaka Subject: Submission of Internship Report on Foreign direct investment and Economic Growth in Bangladesh. Dear Sir, It is an absolute pleasure for me to submit the Internship Report titled “Foreign direct investment and Economic Growth in Bangladesh” as a significant part of the BBA program. While making this report, I have experienced a fair knowledge about Foreign direct investment and economy of Bangladesh and its impact on the growth of Bangladesh. I have tried my best to follow your guidelines in every aspect of preparing this report. I have collected what I believed...
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...Executive Summary Foreign Direct Investment is one of the vital force to boost up the economy. In this project report I would like to draw a current scenario of Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh. In this regard I present the most updated data, avoid the uncompleted data and use the best judgment at the time of presenting the data to better knowing the current trend about the Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh. I prepared an overview of “Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh” based on secondary data and information. For this specific purpose I collected data and information from various sources like published materials such as the Bangladesh Economic Review, Different articles of Board of Investment (BOI) and Bangladesh Export Processing Zone (BEPZA), Daily Statement of Affairs of different Internet based publication and other books on Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh and articles related to Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh. I furnished the full contents of the report in eight chapters. I concentrated on arranging and putting the data in such a way that the report progressively anchors to a desired destination of understanding. Introduction Part-1 Investment has acquired considerable emotive force in any country. It is viewed as beneficial on employment creator-as it brings about economic development. It can termed capital flowing from a firm or individual within the country or in one country to a business or businesses in another country involving...
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...Report on Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh Executive Summary Foreign Direct Investment is one of the vital force to boost up the economy. In this project report I would like to draw a current scenario of Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh. In this regard I present the most updated data, avoid the uncompleted data and use the best judgment at the time of presenting the data to better knowing the current trend about the Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh. I prepared an overview of “Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh” based on secondary data and information. For this specific purpose I collected data and information from various sources like published materials such as the Bangladesh Economic Review, Different articles of Board of Investment (BOI) and Bangladesh Export Processing Zone (BEPZA), Daily Statement of Affairs of different Internet based publication and other books on Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh and articles related to Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh. I furnished the full contents of the report in eight chapters. I concentrated on arranging and putting the data in such a way that the report progressively anchors to a desired destination of understanding. Introduction Part-1 Investment has acquired considerable emotive force in any country. It is viewed as beneficial on employment creator-as it brings about economic development. It can termed capital flowing from a firm or individual within the country or in one country...
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...Incentives and Facilities in Bangladesh Exemption and allowances according to ITO, 1984: Tax rebate: An assesse shall be entitled to a credit from the amount of tax payable on his total income of an amount equal to fifteen percent of the sums specified in paragraphs of the said Part B of ITO, 1984. The aggregate of the allowances admissible of the Sixth Schedule Part B shall not exceed- (a) One crore and fifty lakh taka (b) exceed thirty per cent of the total income of the assesse. Tax Exemption: 44. (4) The Government may, (a) Make such amendments by way of addition, omission, alteration or qualification (b) Make any exemption, reduction in rate in respect of tax in favor of any class of income or in regard to the whole or any part of the income of any class of persons. Exclusion from total income: • Any income derived from house property held under trust or other legal obligation wholly for religious or charitable purposes. • Any service charge derived from operation of micro credit by a non-government organization registered with NGO Affairs Bureau; • Any voluntary contributions received by a religious or charitable institution and applicable solely to religious or charitable purposes; • The income of a local government; • Any income accruing to, or derived by, a provident fund to which the Provident Fund Act, 1925 (XIX of 1925), applies; • Any income accruing to, or derived by, workers participation fund established under the Bangladesh Labor Act, 2006; •...
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...business in Bangladesh over years and what will be the course of actions in order to achieve the proper “Investment climate in Bangladesh”. The report is prepared in order to get the knowledge and fulfill the basic requirement to complete the course titled as “Economic Conditions Analysis”. b. Background of the study: Economics is a sea of theories. These theories are the stairway to lift us to a stage from where we can get the entire idea of its different sectors. “Economic Conditions Analysis” is basically theory related course in addition to a mixing of practical incidents to compare theories and its applications. Obtaining theoretical knowledge is only a halfway to reach the target because implementation of theories is the ultimate goal of it. Being a very practical course “Economic Conditions Analysis” requires a large extent of implementation of its theories and procedures in the real life. To meet up this requirement I have prepared the report titled “Investment climate in Bangladesh”. c. Objectives: 1. Broad Objective: The broad objective is to examine investment climate in Bangladesh over years and what should be done for better performance in the upcoming years. 2. Specific Objectives: The specific objectives of preparing the report are as follows: i. To present historical data regarding industrial policy, obstacles to implement and what should be done to create proper investment climate in Bangladesh. ii....
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...PROJECT PROPOSAL On Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN BANGLADESH Prepared For Md. Sujahangir Kobir Sarkar Lecturer Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Development Faculty of Business Administration and Management Patuakhali Science and Technology University Prepared By Ashfaqur Rahman Level - II , Semester - II Roll : 039 , Reg. : 01567 Session : 2007-2008 Faculty of Business Administration & Management PATUAKHALI SCIENCE & TECHNNOLOGY UNIVERSITY Date of Submission: April 30, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Background Information of the Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Statement of Project Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4 3. Objectives of the Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. Justification of the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5. Benefits of the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....5 6. Methodology of the Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 7. Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...Foreign Investment trends in Bangladesh: Board of Investment of Bangladesh is the principal investment promotion agency engaged mainly in investment promotion, facilitation, and policy advocacy support for the policy makers. The Board of Investment Act 1989 (Act XII of 1989) has entrusted the Board of Investment with responsibility for inter alia "collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of all kinds of industrial data and establishment of data bank for that purpose"- BOI has endeavored in to portray a brief on Foreign Investment registered from 1977 to 2010 for Joint venture investment and from 1990-2010 for the 100% foreign investment projects. Country wise foreign and joint venture investment during 2009-2010* Country | No. of Projects | Proposed Investment (US$ m) | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 478,652.17 | Australia | 4 | 2,036.23 | USA | 5 | 2,990.33 | Finland | 2 | 3,023.89 | India | 9 | 8,451.53 | South Korea | 12 | 33,768.91 | Malaysia | 3 | 3,056.52 | Netherlands | 5 | 8,544.76 | China | 12 | 21,000.36 | United Kingdom | 5 | 3,507.76 | Pakistan | 2 | 990.91 | Japan | 8 | 2,624.85 | Denmark | 1 | 1,217.39 | Sri Lanka | 2 | 646.23 | Canada | 2 | 1,017.23 | Taiwan | 1 | 502.97 | Singapore | 4 | 1,929.62 | Turkey | 1 | 150.94 | Greece | 1 | 156.81 | Italy | 2 | 1,039.95 | Hong Kong | 5 | 14,805.94 | Total | 89 | 590,114.91 | As a developing country, Bangladesh needs FDI for its ongoing development process. Since independence...
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...Determining FDI Potential: Are National Policies and Incentives Sufficient? Foreign direct investment (FDI) is increasingly becoming a preferred form of capital flows to developing countries in recent years, as compared to other forms of capital flows. The reasons for this are not hard to seek. In the context of the gloom and despair of the heavy debt burden plaguing these countries, FDI promises to be the bright ray of hope for harnessing capital flows to the country’s economic development without the pangs of capital repayment with interest. In this context Feldstein and Razin (2000) and Sodka (forthcoming) note that the gains to host countries can take several other forms: • FDI allows transfer of capital and technology, which is not possible through financial investment in goods and services. • FDI also promotes competition in the domestic input market • Profits generated by FDI contribute to the corporate revenue in the host country • Operation of new ventures by FDI leads to employee learning in the host country who learn how to manage and operate the businesses. This contributes to human capital development of the host country. • Profits generated by FDI contribute to tax revenues in the host country FDI is different from other major types of external private capital flows in that it is motivated largely by the investor’s long-term prospects for making profits in production activities that they directly control. Foreign bank lending and...
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...1.0 Introduction FDI refers to is a direct investment into production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country, either by buying a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in the country. Foreign Direct Investment which is a passive investment which is passive investment in the securities of another country as stock and bonds. Foreign direct investment occurs when a firm invests directly in facilities to produce and /or market a product in a foreign country.FDI plays a dominant role in the economics of Bangladesh through accelerating Gross Domestic Product(GDP),export and domestic investment followed by overall economic growth. The objective of this term paper is to find out the major effect of FDI on industrial productivity of Bangladesh. Foreign direct investment (FDI) enables a capital poor country like Bangladesh to build up capital, avoid threat to unemployment develop productive capacity. Conventional wisdoms have it that firms with foreign equity tend to be more productive. This could be due to the firm specific tangible assets such as exclusive technology and product designs, or the intangible know-how embodied in foreign equity such as marketing, networking and sourcing. Such assets may be more readily available in big multinational corporations (MNC). As such, being part of MNCs allow the local subsidiaries with foreign equity to gain access to these assets...
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...“Impact of FDI and Joint Venture on Employment Generation: A Multi-sector Experience of Bangladesh Economy” 1. Md. Nazmul Hasan, Lecturer of Finance and Banking, Daffodil International University, 4/2, Sobhanbag, Prince Plaza, Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh. (Correspondent Authors). palashdu007@gmail.com. Cell: +88-01915.653068 2. Hussain Ahmed Enamul Huda, Lecturer, Department of Finance, University of Dhaka, Dhaka – 1000, Bangladesh. Haehuda@yahoo.com. Cell: +88-01911.745255. Abstract: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is very crucial for the sustainable development of developing countries in general and in specific for LDCs-like Bangladesh. For Bangladesh, inflow of foreign direct investment is the major stimulus for the sturdy and long-standing economic growth which is subject to the improvement of many socio-economic and political factors. As a promising hub for foreign direct investment, Bangladesh has already conquered popularity for its simplistic, liberal and most investments friendly climate throughout the globe. Being an open, flexible and promising destination for foreign direct investment, Bangladesh has been drawing attention of the global investors into a focal investment destination within SouthAsian region. Its investment climate is mostly featured by munificent and alluring packages of incentives to investors. In addition, there is no discrimination between the local and foreign investors in facilitating the incentives they owe from the investment destination...
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