DHAKA, Nov 29 (NNN-BSS) – A two-day international investment summit, started in the Bangladeshi capital, to help the country woo more foreign investors.
Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, inaugurated the summit at a city hotel in Dhaka yesterday, joining virtually from her official residence, Ganabhaban.
Speaking as the chief guest, she invited investors of the world to come up with investment in Bangladesh, saying, Dhaka is set to provide all policy support for creating investment-friendly environment.
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), organised the Summit, in which video messages of Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce, Ren Hongbin and World Economic Forum Managing Director, Jeremy Jurgens, among other world dignitaries, were broadcast.
An audio-visual documentary titled: “Discover Limitless Opportunities” in Bangladesh, was screened at the function. The summit is aimed at showcasing the potential of Bangladesh to foreign investors.
Hasina said, 11 potential investment sectors have been identified, including infrastructure, capital markets, financial services, information technology, electronics manufacturing, leather, automotive and light engineering, agro-products and food processing, healthcare and medicine, jute-textiles, and blue-economy.
The prime minister said, the government has formulated sector-wise industrial development policies, along with the National Industrial Policy, and passed the Labour (Amendment) Act-2018, taking environmental protection projects and automating bond management, for the growth of export-oriented industry.
She added, the government has built 39 high-tech parks and are building 100 economic zones in phases.
“We’ve received investment proposals of 27.07 billion U.S. dollars in the economic zones,” she added.
Meanwhile, Hasina said, about 30 billion U.S. dollars of investment proposal is awaiting implementation in 79 Public-private partnership (PPP) projects.
Speaking of Bangladesh’s graduation from one of the least developed countries to a developing country, she said, the size of Bangladesh economy is now 411 billion dollars, foreign exchange reserves stand at 48 billion dollars, and per capita income is 2,554 dollars.– NNN-BSS
