State of Cotton Textile Industry of Bangladesh（孟加拉国的棉纺织业的状态）.pdfVIP

State of Cotton Textile Industry of Bangladesh 2010 and Beyond Quamrul Ahsan, Ph.D. Whenever I engage in intellectual discussions with cotton and textile experts around the world, I invariably face a question how did it happen? Obviously the question is how the textile sector in Bangladesh has shown a phenomenal growth through last decade? I recall a similar discussion with Dr. Terry Townsend of ICAC a couple of years ago. After discussing a number of world issues on cotton and textiles, our discussion boiled down to Bangladesh textile industry. Terry raised a thought provoking question, what did Bangladesh do differently that triggered the textile boom? Well the question is very simple but the answer requires deep thoughts. This article is making an attempt to answer this well posed question. There are three synergic and intrinsic factors that triggered the textile boom in Bangladesh. They are resources, opportunities and policy decision. The resources include abundant labor forces, low cost energy and natural gas. Abundance in labor forces provides Bangladesh textile industry with a competitive advantage in producing labor intensive goods. Self-sustained domestic market of 140 million